Bikesh Deshar

Here for the first time I climbed rocky mountains in all their perfection of purity and spirituality,—a gentle trekker, perhaps mountaineer face to face with the stormy sky, kept safe and warm by a thousand miracles. I leaped lightly from rock to rock, glorifying in the eternal freshness and sufficiency of Nature, and in the ineffable tenderness with which she nurtures her mountain darlings in the very fountains of bluster. Fresh beauty appeared at every step, delicate rock-mosses, and groups of the fairest flowers.  [.......]After completing LCT together with my cousin brothers, I decided to do Gosainkunda Trek on my own two feet. They went home after getting some physical problems. My story began after we separated from Bamboo where we took our last lunch together. Then, I walked further down the Bamboo to the point where Gosainkunda Trail starts from LCT.   As I was coming down, I looked for some stones on the banks of Langtang river to take home as souvenir before I ...

IN an unfathomed forest of Phulchoki, which is believed to be evolved in mesozoic era, I remained for more than 5 hrs, walking quietly up and down, photographing and climbing among the surrounding mountains covered with snow. Phulchoki furnishes an equally interesting example of wilderness wholly, or in part, by wide range of flora and fauna and in every direction, the landscape stretched out sublimely away in fresh wildness--- a manuscript written by the hand of Nature alone. It all started with an obsession of walking. On a chilly morning of February 5, 2022, I woke up late and after my morning stuffs, I looked around from our terrace. I saw all the hills and mountains of the Kathmandu valley covered with snow. And I decided to hike Phulchoki, one of the care killing trails of the valley which stretches out 13 km from the base of the mountain.  However, I already hiked this trail with my friend on last December, 2021 when first snowfall of the season hit the valley. With an urge...