Theme: Exploring the heights
Hiking Route: Kapan-Tarebhir-Shanistar
Date: November 09, 2008, Sunday
Hike Coordinator: Vishnu Kshettri, DeepakM
Participants: Rudra Pandey, Lava Kafle, Ganesh Thapa, Shekhar Poudel, Prajwal Shrestha, Mahesh Regmee and Vishnu Kshettri
Photos: The hikers
Caption: Ganesh Thapa and Vishnu Kshettri
Report: Prajwal Shrestha
Creative Support: Pallavi Sharma/ Ganesh Thapa/ Dijup Tuladhar

'Exploring the heights' - Kapan to Tarevhir to Shanistar

With the sole aim of conquering the most difficult and challenging peak, seven hikers headed towards Kapan on the conquest of Tarevhir. Located several kilometers away from the main city, we drove to Kapan where we had a small energizing breakfast. The place seemed calm and quiet until we made our way through the narrow trail that led us to a small village. The downhill trail was wet, so slippery that a common act of moving forward became risky at times. Jumping up and down the fields, and paving our own path we reached a beautiful pine forest. A short hike from there we reached the top where we could get a glimpse of the peak, Tarebhir (2100m). By then, we were sure about atleast one thing- the hike wasn't going to be easy.

Slowly climbing uphill and following the trail that lead us to Nagi Ghumba( Shivapuri National Park), we reached a stupa where we took rest for sometime. After taking short rest, we moved ahead to reach the Shivapuri highway. Ignoring the main trail, we decided to take the trail through the forest. The trail was vertical by all means, tough and deserted. We were moving higher and higher, and that was the only way to reach our destination. I must say everyone was tough enough to defeat any elevation that discouraged them. It wasn't easy and after two hours of steep climb we reached the top.

After getting a nice view of the Himalayas on the other side, we started our hike downhill. Descending was quite easy, and within an hour we reached other lower side of Tarebhir. There we had a late lunch. Now, we had to reach Sundarijal and it already was getting late. We packed and started our hike towards Sundarijal at 5:00 pm. Slowly the night took over, and we were hiking under moonlight. All the trails looked identical, and we lost our way in the forest. We could see the airport runway below us and that reminded us that we weren't that far from the city. We just knew we had to descend so we were moving downhill not knowing where we were about to land. At 7:30 pm, we met a guy who was climbing uphill in the forest. We asked him the directions and following his words we reached a house.

The family had just finished dinner, but the man was kind enough to show us the nearest path from where we could reach to Shanistar, where Ram drove the van to fetch us. At 9:00 pm we all got in with sore legs and aching body with stretched chest and that was filled with pride.

My recollections:
I don't how Shekhar Dai completed this hiking, but I just want to say V for Victory to Shekhar Dai. You MADE it!

This hiking was tough from the initial phase, so Shekhar Dai was lagging behind right from the start. I was with him and he told me it was tough and he would return back. He told me to go with the group ahead and he would somehow walk to the nearby bus stand and reach home safely. But I convinced him to move ahead slowly and talk to the group if you couldn’t make it. Then, Rudra Dai and Vishnu Dai convinced Shekhar Dai that there was no way of looking back and we would walk slowly to reach Tarebhir.

01 V 4 Visage	02 A kick off
03 Good morning Sir - dar Bhim Singh_Nepal Police	04 Spiritual sense of certainty
05 Physical examination without a Doctor	06 Peroccupied
07 The General thinking of battle to win	08 A view of Narayansthan
09 Adversity generates the Generosity	10 Truth of hike_slide down and become happy
11 Up and make your legs rub	12 Cruising through the forest
13 GT and his wet jump	14 Ancient engineering
15 And modern engineering	16 A halt for the mind
17 Youth to lead	18 My T-shirt is Canadian but i am a Nepalese
19 Local business or life in nepal	20 Team work- always pleasant with surprising outputs!
21 I would surely like to recommend this trail	22 Cold War prevails
23 A glimpse at Tarebhir village	24 The TAREBHIR and Khela of TAAR
25 Waiting for Aloo, literally	26 1130 hrs_bottom of Tarebhir
27 Embodying solace	28 Mahesh narrating the story of a teacher and restaurant owner_Mahesh has details
29 Belief and custom	30 Always on a march to the heights
31 Cruel TAREBHIR at its immensity	32 Arachnid_smartly webs traps for prey
33 Jay Bajrangbali	34 A passion for heights
35 The Ram Leela	36 And Shekhar's khela
37 Excuse us guys, no conferences going on here	38 Dendrobium - Surpsingly welcomed us
39 Land of Himalayas	40 And jungle
41 A day's work	42 Just as it is
43 At 80, still going strong	44 Household is not kidding
45 Captured in a moment	46 Good evening
47 And ciao for the day	48 I am here for you
49 The Tarebhir treat	50 A momentary bliss
51 Second phase of hiking in progress	52 Man at work
53 Be careful, we've been missing the trail regularly	54 Finding a way out
55 Rest is necessary, irrespective to what you do, where you are	56 Still hanging around Jomsom, though just in thoughts
57 The friendship at wavelength	58 I am thankful to someone
59 Stilll descending	60 Careful Rudra Dai....
61 The miraculous millet field that brought our journey to an end