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Shivank 'crawls' to the Kingdom of Lo Manthang in the Mustang Valley for an overland off-road expedition of a lifetime.

'What? Who the hell goes to Nepal for a drive?' This was my reaction to a friend a couple of years ago, when he proposed the idea of a road-trip to the Mustang Valley. Frankly, Nepal never really caught my fancy. Perhaps the fact that it's so close to us North Indians that it doesn't seem like a 'foreign' land. Also, there's nothing there but Mt. Everest - isn't it?

So, why would anyone like me - who even dreads the thought of walking to the nearest grocery store - ever go there? There was absolutely no incentive for me, or so I thought. So, just like our present governm...