Trekking High and Low in Nepal's Eastern Himalaya
Sierra Club member Brian Elliott will speak at the October 2 chapter meeting on his recent trekking and birding trip to Nepal. Brian and a friend trekked for 20 days on the Makalu Base Camp Trek route into and out of the Makalu Barun Conservation Area in the Himalaya Mountains of eastern Nepal. This area of Nepal is rich in Tibetan Buddhism and Sherpa culture.
The trekking route passed through lowland tropical forests, rhododendron forests higher up, and then finally into the alpine zone at the higher elevations. Elevations on the trek ranged from a low of 2500 ft. to a high of 20,250 ft. at Sherpani Col.
Following the trek, Brian spent four days birding and wildlife viewing at Chitwan National Park in southern Nepal near the Indian border.
Brian is chair of the chapter’s Los Serranos Group, which includes Chino Hills, Chino, Ontario, Montclair, Rancho Cucamonga and Fontana, as well as his home town Upland. He’s a geologist and retired high school science teacher. In recent years, he’s given chapter programs on his birding and wildlife tours in Botswana and Costa Rica as well as several of his canoe adventures in Alaska.
