Full circle life moments and Dad’s postcard from Nepal

 My father wrote to me during his own journey to Everest Base Camp in the late 1990s, as he was prone to do while traveling. These two images are the actual front and back of that now-quite-meaningful postcard I received: 

The post card Robert Alt's father sent when he was on his Everest trek in the late 1990s.

In 2015, I was in Nepal for my first time and hiked near the famous Fishtail Mountain, which I didn’t recall then being the same peak prominently featured on the postcard Dad had sent. 

I now especially treasure this photograph (below) wherein my unfailingly-resourceful guide Man Bahadur Sunuwar and I coincidentally stopped to pose with the unmistakable Machhapuchhare (Fishtail Mountain) profile in the background:

Robert Alt (right) with Man Bahadur Sunuwar.

Certain mountain silhouettes—especially this one—are mesmerizing and compelling. Because Machhapuchhare is considered to be sacred, climbing it is forbidden.