The Annapurna Circuit

One of Nepals more famous treks the Annapurna circuit takes about 16-20 days and takes you up from the valleys at Besishihar at 800m all the way up to the Thorong La pass at a thin air height of 5416m!!

Many people walk this every year, in huge tour groups, people with guides and porters and then people that just walk alone.

We'd been reliably informed that porters were for pussies so we shrank our stuff down to a handleable 12kg's including water and hit the trail alone.

Day one didn't get off to the best start as less than 20 minutes in I (Ian) was hopping across a deep river and did a full on comedy banana slip and went right in, full backpack and camera!! Luckily everything survived and that was our only accident for the remainder of the walk!!