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Forbidden Dreams
Time is running out for all the adventures I’d planned to have as a child that were forbidden or forgotten.Sandakphu is the Himalayan dream I’ve been chasing all my life. I’m afraid that if this may be a dream too late. Forbidden when I was 16 — can I do it when I’m sixy?
A dream the size of Kanchenjunga is hard to ignore forever.
To gaze on towering Kanchenjunga and the Sleeping Buddha nestled in a snow-white blanket against brilliant blue skies, I snatched glimpses of this impossible, ridiculous and forbidden over the long tiring years of motherhood and career.
Did you have a dream at 16 that is buried deep under the messy muddle of more important things?
This is the story of that dream and how it became a reality. This dream is only about the right place, at the right time, to do nothing at all. To be in a waking dream in the white heart of a sacred mountain. I must walk five days and 61 kilometers to do this. Three days up and two days down. Touching 4000 meters.
ChasingHimalayanDreams Team
It is the mountain that has been calling me, and it’s time to answer. At 16, the…
