What You Actually Eat on a Nepal Trek You packed your trekking poles. You packed your blister plasters. You downloaded offline maps. And then someone asked what you would eat up there and you went quiet.
Here is the honest answer: mainly rice and lentils. Also cake. And one tea that will become the best thing that happens to you every afternoon.
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What four high-altitude treks taught me about altitude sickness - the two types nobody warns you about, and the breathing trick I now teach every trekker who joins our groups.  My first trek to Annapurna Base Camp, I kept wondering why people kept climbing and staying up there in the condition they were in.
Coughing. Sneezing. All night long. Every teahouse, every night. I'll be honest - my first reaction was judgment. I thought: these people are sick, why aren't they turning back? Why are they being so irresponsible, dragging a flu up a mountain? The three things I use on every long trek and why the Camino is basically a walking pharmacy. Every morning on the Camino I watched the zombie ritual.
5am. White fluorescent lights. Pilgrims sitting on the edges of their bunks, unwrapping bandages from blisters so bad I'd never seen anything like it in my life. Wincing. Taping. Hoping today would be better than yesterday. |
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