Duration : 8 days Fully Supported
Region : The Annapurnas (Pokhara to Pokhara)
Max. Altitude : +/- 5,000 m.
Recommended Season : Late Sept. - early Jan.
Early Mar - mid May.
This climb to the very ramparts of the sacred mountain
of Machhapurchare is still one of Nepal's best kept
trekking secrets - a trek virtually unique to Himalayan
Trekkers.
Mardi Himal takes you off the usual paths and into
remote wilderness areas. We trek through lush rainforest
and rice paddies up to the ridge named Mardi Himal.
We follow this long rising ridge to its summit at
5588 metres (18500 feet). At the summit we are looking
straight up at Mt. Machhapuchare, immediately below
it's sheer south face. Machhapuchare is known as the
Fishtail Mountain because of it's twin peaks which
mirror the image of a fish tail. It is superbly beautiful
and is considered sacred to the Queen of Nepal so
is not allowed to be climbed. 
From
here we continue to follow the ridge, mostly grassy
and sometimes under snow, to our 'High camp' at 3620
metres (13550feet). Annapurna South seems near enough
to throw a rock at and Machhapuchare close enough
to touch. Finally, upon reaching 5,000 metres or more,
the great ice fields and blue glaciers of the Sanctuary
Wall lie below. Around us, in an arc from horizon
to horizon (from Dhaulagiri to the Ganesh Himal) are
a dozen or more glistening snow-bound giants, with
Annapurna I, highest of all, beyond. This view is
almost impossible to equal and is what makes Mardi
Himal our favourite. From here we trek back to Pokhara.
Machhapuchare (6,993m) is the southernly high point
of the Annapurna Massif, the awesomely majestic grouping
of mountains in the central Himalaya that includes
5 of the world's 12 highest. It is best known as the
famous triangular skyline that is seen from the Phewa
Lake at Pokhara. It is Superbly beautiful and considered
sacred no permits ever being issued to climb it. As
we shall see from a much closer, more westerly, vantage
point, the mountain in fact possess twin- thus its
name, Machhapuchare meaning "Fishtail".
Mardi Himal is the long rising ridge and its summit
that form the southwesterly slope of Mt. Machhapuchare
immediately below it sheer south face. It is from
here that we shall obtain the most amazing close up
views of all.
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