I don’t know which piece of good news to share with your first. I guess I’ll postpone some of my self-promotion and give you an update on our good friend Pema. He keeps himself busy from fall to spring hiking the steep Khumbu trails of his home neighborhood in Nepal and tends to maintaining his prosperous lodges. You can be sure that he gets quite enthused when summer comes along and the heavy monsoon rain make his trekking business impractical. He absolutely loves getting out and traveling the world in the summers, as he has been doing for many years. He has made so many friends across the far corners of the globe that it takes him all summer to dash around and drop in for quick visits. For now he’s in the eastern United States, and by the end of the summer he’ll whip through here on his way to California. I suggested that either he has too many friends to visit or he should find more excuses to get away from Nepal.

The other good news is that I’ve finally updated the menus on SherpaTrek.com with links to the rest of the articles I wrote about Nepal. If you have a look now you’ll see that overall there are about 120 articles, and that’s not including the blog entries. As you can see, the list is way too long for a neatly organize menu now. The articles cover just about everything I could think of and many of the quirks I experienced in visiting Nepal and in trekking through the Khumbu region. Of course there’s a lot more to the history and culture of Nepal, but you have to admit it’s a pretty extensive collection of notes and anecdotes about the experience. I hope you will take a look through the articles and find out just how fascinating Nepal is. I enjoyed researching and writing about all of it and at the least it will be a good record of some great memories.