Hello everyone! Long time reader/picture admirer, first time poster here!

I would like to share the videos I took from my trek around the Manaslu Mountain range in central Nepal last fall.

Manaslu (8,156 m) as seen from near the village of Lho (~3,100 m)

Manaslus peak is 8,156 m (26,759 ft)  high. The hike starts at just about 800 m (2,500 ft) of altitude and crosses Larke La (pass) at 5160 m (17,000 ft) after roughly 10-12 days. We needed 13 days to finish the hike in Dharapani, back down at 1800 m (6,000 ft).

You can sleep and eat in guest houses in the villages along the way, so you don't need a tent or a stove. It's very comfortable considering you're in the middle of the worlds highest mountains.

The video is split in two parts cause it admittedly got a little longer than I previously intended it to be.

Part 1 feat. our first weekof hiking in the lower Buri Gandaki Gorge

Part 2 feat. a lonely monastery, a tough climb towards Manaslu Base Camp and the pass crossing

I tried to include some (hopefully) helpful information about the trails, stages and lodges in the video. I hope it might be interesting for some of you!

Also I hope this post is fine with this subreddits rules. Please remove if I missed to comply to anything. The videos are not monetized.

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The Gurkha hill tribe (hereafter [HT] until the /clan plugin catches up with 2015 and supports Unicode) hereby claims the land on the Gorkha Plateau. It is a resource poor area with a view of the Eastern Lighthouse.

We don't make any effort to control the beach, but we did build a bridge in case you spawn in the far east and need to make it further inland. We're nice like that.

Probably willing to rent out houses too. Once an innkeeper always an innkeeper.

This timeline is for the fanfiction, "Summoning India", which is currently being written. It does not describe what is going to happen, but what happened before the teleportation event. This would help give anyone a brief understanding of this Alternate India from 2000, so that no one gets confused with the IRL one.

And yes, I know this is like a bio chapter but hey, I don't want people coming to me and being like, "Hey India had Su-30MK in the year 2000, not the F-16! And why is India using the M113 and not the BMP-1/2!!!"

Link for my fanfiction's cover art

Also sorry for any mistakes, I am new to Reddit and still figuring out myself.

Time line starts from here.

1947- After 200 years under British rule, British India gained its Independence. As per the Indian Independence Act passed in the Westminster Parliament, the British Raj was partitioned into two separate independent nations, Secular Dominion of India under the elected Prime Minister Vallabhai Patel and Muslim dominated Dominion of Pakistan.

(Change of leadership - Vallabhai Patel was a man of action and known for his support for his armed forces and a strong united nation, both internal and external power projection. Thus Nehru becoming his deputy here instead )

1947/48- First Indo-Pak War. Both nations were still suffering from the communal violence that had ensued following the partition when an armed conflict arose on the question of who will take the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir. The war began with a surprise Pakistan sponsored raider attack, overwhelming the State forces.

The ruler of the state, King Hari Singh signed the instrument of accession, which allowed the Indian Army to move in and fight off the raiders. Consequently, regular Pakistani Armed Forces entered combat and, after a year of intense fighting, the United Nations brokered a ceasefire. They left Pakistan with a third of Kashmir and India the rest.

[The Point of Divergence]

August 1950- India answers the call to arms by the United Nations and sends 6 Battalions (4200 soldiers) of the 1st Gorkha Rifles and an Army Medical unit 60th Parachute Field Ambulance to assist the Republic of Korea (South Koreans) in the Korean war. This act puts India to be seen in a better light by the United States and its allies. Indian troops would go on to fight commendably in the war, gaining widespread recognitio

PS BEFORE READING: The views are exclusively the author's own and are purely based on all available information and sources compiled from the Internet.

Stage I: P.M.S Blackett's Scientific Strategy, India's Dangerous Geopolitical Game of Chicken Against the PRC (1947-1962)

Part A: Post Independence Scenario (1947-1961)

The original Indian military-strategic theory of tactical and strategic restraint and Pakistani-focused defense strategy can be credited to Nobel Prize-Winning British scientist PMS Blackett- a pivotal member of the British wartime community in World War 2 who was pivotal in developing the ULTRA signals intel network and organizing a coherent bombing strategy of going against maritime targets in the Atlantic - was hired by Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in 1946 to present a scientific strategy for the defense of the newly formed Republic of India. The Armed Forces had retained Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck's, Armed Force Organisation Plan calling for 200,000 Active Duty Ground troops, a 20 squadron Air Force and a Navy centered around 2 Aircraft Carriers with a primary threat coming from the Great Indian Desert Region (i.e. the post-independence state of Pakistan). P.M.S Blackett had submitted the following recommendations to the Indian Government,:-

1. Maintain a small territorial defense force focusing exclusively on a Defensive Minded Strategy
2. Maintaining a Non Aligned posture against the Soviet Union and the United States
3. Military Expenditure MUST NOT exceed 2% of India's GDP
4. No need to pursue any Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Weapons)
5. Focus Extensively on Generating economic growth by modernizing core industries, infrastructure, and poverty alleviation.
6. To ensure the Indian Armed Force do not get entangled in a war against a major power, extensive civilian control of the Armed Forces must be maintained in all affairs related to defense.

This extremely pacifist recommendation was taken to an extreme level that pushed India's Defense Budget below the recommended 2% target- the Army went through a massive demobilization period in which 7 World War II era Divisions were disbanded while the Frontier Guards were divided between India and Pakistan- with Pakistan gaining 7 of the 11 Frontier Divisions, [with defense becoming an afterthought.](https://eparlib.nic.in/bit

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”