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Treks Worth Doing After Sixty

Short, graded, well-supported trails in India and Nepal that reward the walking without demanding the mountaineering.

By Sangita Bhattacharyya · 14 Aug 2024 · 1 min read

Treks Worth Doing After Sixty

A good senior trek has three properties: a short daily distance, a bail-out point, and somewhere warm to sleep. Plenty of routes have all three.

The Poon Hill circuit in Nepal is the obvious first: four days, teahouses throughout, and a sunrise over Annapurna that justifies every step.

Closer to home, the Kuari Pass in Uttarakhand and the Dzongri trail in Sikkim are both walkable in five days with porters and a slow schedule.

Whatever you choose, spend the two months beforehand walking hills at home. The trek is not the training.

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Sangita Bhattacharyya

A member of the 50+ Voyagers community, writing about the road.

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