Ned Hentz 
India Passages 
Impressions on a Trek

This is a travel journal the author wrote while visiting India for the first time and trekking for 18 days in Nepal and the Himalayas. It begins in Delhi and moves to the Taj Mahal, a tea estate and plantation in Darjeeling, Nepal and ends in Sikkim where the author hikes to Guicha La (16, 400 feet) at the base of Kanchenjunga – the third highest mountain in the world. It was primarily intended to be a personal memoir for his friends and family and fellow trekkers but others who are interested in India and trekking in the high Himalayas might enjoy this highly descriptive account of a trip in October of 2008.

About the author

Ned Hentz lives in Dover, Massachusetts where he and his wife Kate keep keep busy raising their four children. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont, he spent the first decade of his career working as an advertising copywriter in New York and Los Angeles and founded Olivio Premium Products based in Boston. Mr. Hentz is an avid reader and is currently working on a novel. Gates of Snow is a collection of his impressions during his first trip to India and the Himalayas where he and a group of friends visited Delhi and Darjeeling and trekked to Guiche-la viewpoint at the base of Kanchenjunga – the third highest mountain in the world.