Labels:bulletin board | daily | earth | gazette | person | poster | sky OCR: Makalu Base Camp Trek HOIH WIIn IN WILDERNESS The handsomest of Nepal's 8 .000 -me ter giants, Makalu 27 825 1S perfect ice pyramid with four ridges, its huge south face rearing impr essi ively above the moraine of the Barun Glacier Makalu is surrounded by ar equally impressive Himalayan wilderness, 1400-square mile assemt iblage of peaks passes and glaciers now protected as Makalu -Barun National Park Very few people have ever been this remote and rugged area our trek runs the entire gamut Or the Nepal geographical and cultui ral experi ence Beginni ing the Tumingtar airstrip a1 500 we hike along terra ced rice fields and up into some of Nepal's most sublime rhododen- dron forests 19 we make our way up the Arun Valley toward Makal HIGH soutr Hima ional remot andl ugged inning sormne
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