This trek seems distant to me, which is indicative of how quickly time and distraction affects an experience. My travels through the Solukhumbu District of this Himalayan country were so close to what I have always wanted they sometimes felt unreal- so good I had to concentrate harder, with more effort, on where my legs were taking me- what my eyes were showing me. The TV documentaries and National Geographic articles and Traveller photos position a trip like this into a category of almost unreachability- the Himalayas... Everest... Yetis... Buddhism. What a picture these words create- a world so entirely in your head has a hard time becoming real. But it was a trip that will never leave these bones- a fusion of subjects and objects to produce pure Quality in every way. I felt IN it- I walked IN it. Not content to leave it in the past, this landscape will be walked through again and again.
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