Concert at Corvara for Nepal

On 14 August 2015 at the Bar al Lago in Corvara, Alta Badia, Dolomites, Italy the Frozen Rats band will give a concert to raise money for Nepal, to help after the earthquake and also to take stock of the current trekking situation in the country.
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Trekking in Nepal: Annapurna South from the lodges at Gandruk
Marcello Cominetti
Marcello Cominetti, a Mountain Guide based in the Italian Dolomites, has announced a concert at Corvara on 14 August with which he and his Frozen Rats band hope to raise funds for Nepal after the country was hit by the devastating earthquake on 25 April 2015. In doing so Cominetti has also provided the following brief trekking report since, in addition to thousands of deaths caused by the earthquake, trekking tourism is currently practically at a standstill in the country.

”The local situation is not hopeless as you might think" wrote Cominetti "The earthquake has certainly affected some areas and resulted in thousands of victims, but there are plenty of other areas that are intact and that can be visited completely normally. It was the nigh terrorist news provided by our terrible national media that frightened off tourists / trekkers, but in particular after the earthquake, Nepal needs tourists, so as to not to find itself even worse off.

These words simply wish to be an honest report from Kathmandu and the Annapurna region where I have just guided a group of 2 families along with my thirteen year old daughter.

Had I considered the situation dangerous we certainly wouldn’t have gone, but instead we were practically the only western tourists out and about, both at Kathmandu and Pokhara and out there trekking.

On 14 August at Bar Lago in Corvara, Alta Badia, I’ll give a concert with my band Frozen Rats to raise money for Nepal. It won’t be anything like George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh, but anything we manage to raise will certainly be better than nothing. "

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