Return to Nepal

After an absence of 15 years, I am returning to Nepal in early May. Nepal has always been my favourite destination for mountain photography. As a geologist, visiting the home of the highest and youngest mountains on the planet has special attractions. Add to this the cultural diversity and a population that is willing to be photographed, and you have an alluring combination. Trekking through the high mountains and crossing the high passes brings challenges of acclimatisation, but it comes with a rhythm and meditative state that is difficult to explain. You get up in the early morning for the sunrise shoot, and you hang around in the evening for the sunset opportunities. In between, you walk in a Zen-like focus. Interacting with the local and trekker traffic on the paths and turning every corner to new and exciting vistas.

Inaugural Blog Post Cycle50.net

29 Feb

Written By Alex Milne

Welcome to my blog. Cycle50.net draws on the fifty climatic cycles within the Quaternary. The Quaternary is a period of our recent geological past which has seen fifty major glacial cycles from expansion to retreat. Currently, we are in an interglacial and hence warming. Had you been asked this question in the 1940s or 50s, you could have been told that we were colding and heading into another ice age. I am less concerned about getting warmer than I am about the real concerns we could tip into Global Colding, related to reconfiguring oceanic currents. Given Earth’s climatic gyrations, I am sceptical that we can, through human intervention, be confident of influencing the climate. If you want to read more deeply into the alternative view I encourage you to download the Shrinking Glacier Conundrum in the book section