The spiritual path to Poon Hill

Stone steps, mountain air, and shared silence—the trek that felt like a pilgrimage.

Last year, I walked the Poon Hill trail in Nepal with my friends. Poon Hill is often seen as a little more than a checkpoint en route to bigger treks such as Annapurna Base Camp and beyond. This is an attempt, a reflection, a love letter, if you will, to the Himalayas and to the unspoken pilgrimage I found in what most consider to be an ‘easy’ trek.