Title: Islands in the Snow: Climbing Nepal's trekking peaks (Footsteps on the Mountain travel diaries)
Author: Mark Horrell
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In the summer of 2009, Mark Horrell had arranged to go on an expedition to Gasherbrum, an 8000m mountain in Pakistan, with one of his mountaineering friends, Mark Dickson. As neither of them had climbed an 8000m peak before, some serious training was required, and they agreed the best way to prepare for the expedition was by going on another slightly easier one.

They decided to do a circular route in the Khumbu region of Nepal which involved climbing two trekking peaks – Mera Peak and…