UL Initially we hiked through some beautiful fields of fresh, beautiful buckwheat. UR The porters moved quickly under their heavy baskets, and then rested often. LL “It was quite impossible to make out the slightest vestige of a track on the other side, where a stretch of thick and apparently impenetrable jungle seemed to run far up the mountain side” (Maurice Herzog, Annapurna). LR A beautiful waterfall came down one of the side hills.