Mustang Trails – A project for #nepal2020
The old caravan village of Kagbeni in Mustang is to become the starting point for the most spectacular mountain bike route in the world: With the mountain bike over the Himalayas! ©Trail Angels
It is no secret that Nepal is the main focus for the Trail Angels in the field of long-distance destinations. This certainly has something to do with our personal connection to this country – Trail Angels CEO Günter Mussnig has been traveling to Nepal since 1992 – and the travel skills that almost inevitably result from this. In addition to building our product portfolio for “private trekking”, our activities for Fair Trails® Himalayas have formed the most important building block for the intensive examination of sustainable trekking tourism in the Himalayas. With the support of the Austrian Development Agency www.entwicklung.at we have set up a joint venture with the development project specialists from ENNOVENT www.ennovent.com and in the meantime hired our own project manager on site, our hard-working Saurabh Battharai. And two dedicated trekking agencies, our old friends from Himalaya Sherpa Nepal and Social Tours have already joined this initiative.
The Snow Leopard Trail, our first Fair Trail in the Himalayas, will be bookable soon! Trail Angels CEO with snow leopard expert Tashi Ghale in snowy Annapurna Himal ©Trail Angels
Activities that were not closed to official Nepal either. The Trail Angels have now been commissioned to develop THE lighthouse project for the tourism campaign #nepal2020, also through the mediation of the tireless Social Tours CEO Raj Gyawali: The Mustang Trails. The Mustang Trails are a network of mountain bike routes that stretch from the hidden kingdom of Mustang in the Tibetan Plateau, past the ice-clad eight-thousanders of Dhaulagiri and Annapurna, through the world’s deepest gorge, the Kali Gandaki Gorge, down into the evergreen monsoon forests of subtropical Nepal lead.
The Mustang Trails are designed to introduce mountain bikers to the beguiling beauty of the Tibetan-influenced Mustang highlands and the deepest gorge on earth, the Kali Gandaki Gorge. Pictured: The village of Kagbeni on the banks of the Kali Gandaki River ©Trail Angels
What an adventure and what a mission! As a recognized mountain bike expert, we were able to win Christian Miklautsch, who also has Himalayan experience, for this trail scouting expedition. Christian flew to Kathmandu on August 12, 2019 and, supported by a local team, will spend a month exploring the possibilities for the Mustang Trails. We will report about it – especially on Facebook.
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Günter Mussnig
The graduate geographer is one of the founders and managing directors of the Trail Angels, which are responsible for the web platform Bookyourtrail.com. As a trekking & outdoor freak, he is one of the fathers of the Alpe-Adria-Trail and has been exploring the Nepalese Himalayas for more than 25 years.
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