To Trek and Back by Eric EH Buddhadharma - HTML preview

WHAT IS TREKKING

Trekking is an adventure sport or a strenuous holiday for active people. Generally, one can trek in hills and in mountain passes.  Walking from village to village or from one mountain to another until you reach the last hamlet could be called trekking.  Mountaineering starts from where trekking ends.  So trekking as an adventure sport or as a strenuous leisure holiday is safe and enjoyable.  Trekking generally starts from lower altitude of say 2000 to 2500 ft above sea level and reaches up to 20,000 feet above sea level.  Different trekking routes have different trekking conditions.  This is why trekking is divided into easy, moderate and difficult.  No two treks are similar in terms of environmental conditions.  Some, you may trek easily while others may need higher physical endurance and experience in covering the entire distance, sometimes which may take over a fortnight.  Some treks require you to acclimatise yourself at different altitude levels so that you may not suffer from altitude sickness.

Trekking help you boost your confidence level and make you feel better physically and mentally.  You even learn to value all that you have back home. When you trek in high passes and mountains you will experience lack of several amenities that you have back home; electricity, fridge, TV, cell phone, car, kitchen, office and home gadgets, variety of foods and fruits.  In the mountain passes even packaged water is expensive, as it has to be fetched from low land after paying an exorbitant sum of money to the porters.  You may have to live on a very few variety of foods and drinks, all these teaches you to value all what you possess back home.  When you go back home you respect all what you have and you also take back the rich experience and the pictures of those lovely moments in the mountains.

You will be surprised to see very smart people living in those high mountain passes.  Some of these people make lots of money, spending their time making brisk business during the trekking seasons and then moving out and living in the city during the lean period.

Trekking is a great mental de-stressing past time or adventure.  It has great benefits for those trekking the correct way and with the correct guidance.  Trekking is regarded as a safe adventure, provided of course undertaken with the correct guidance. 

You walk through the forests and the passes, spending time observing and feeling the natural beauty surrounding you.  You see and experience all that you never experienced before in your life and if you do not trek again, you may never experience such beauty and feeling ever again in your life.  Trekking experiences could make you a different person altogether and may even strengthen you spiritually for better.  The more you trek, greater your experience in crisis management, illness management, meeting with different types of people and living conditions.  Trekking experience in Nepal, Lukla-Mt.Everest Base camp would be different to, say Annapurna BC, in terms of fellow trekkers, difficulty standards, and environmental conditions. 

 If ever you want to make trekking your passion, remember to start from a very short and easy trek, learning first-hand the difficulties and the demands that it puts upon you.  You can then graduate to the moderate level of trekking until you are able to undertake the difficult ones.  As in weight lifting, one cannot lift all the weights immediately the first day, even if one can carry lots of provisions and grocery from the market to one’s home, because carrying this baggage is different from carrying and maneuvering dead weights which could damage your muscles and ligaments, if the movements are incorrect and not controlled.  In the same way, difficult trekking, even if one can walk for hours, cannot be undertaken, unless one has considerable experience, otherwise one is risking one’s life in the process. END OF SAMPLING THIS BOOK.

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