Records & People
Stephane Champoussin finished the Great Himalayan Trail on August 1, becoming one of barely 130 people to ever cross Nepal end to end on foot…
By Laxman Rawal · Aug 10, 2026
On August 1, a French-Canadian trekker named Stephane Champoussin walked into Hilsa, a village on Nepal's remote western border with Tibet, and finished something barely 130 people have ever completed: a full crossing of the Great Himalayan Trail, the entire…
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