Asias greatest threat?: Melting glaciers in the Himalaya mountains | DW News

It’s rare to find two world-class Himalayan treks that lie in adjoining valleys—so close that if you climbed over a ridge on the Rupin trail, you’d drop straight into the Buran Ghati trail. And yet, the experience on each of these treks is so distinctly different that choosing between the two is anything but easy. Rupin Pass is a trek that surprises you at every step. No two days are the same. One moment you’re walking through hanging villages carved into mountainsides, and the next, you’re surr