Ticked About Trek
From the writer who brought us “A Feminist Babe” (View, March 4), I expected no less insight than I got from Jeannine Stein’s cover story on Nepal--”Confessions of a Nepal Novice,” May 31. The Hilburnesque straw dogs she set up in the form of tired jokes about high heels and malls sure made me excited.
Come on, Jeannine, if you can call a potential trekking partner in Australia, couldn’t you have done a little research on Nepal? Like that one of the main reasons for the deforestation of Nepal is to feed the yaks that carry the trekker’s gear. Couldn’t trekking be viewed as a way to actually learn something about the host country (beyond namaste and giggling children), rather than as a spa alternative, great-workout vacation? Westerners have been trekking Nepal for at least 20 years now, after all.
JANE GERMAINE
Hollywood
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