Forty kilometers long and encompassing no fewer than fifteen 7,000 m. plus peaks the Dhaulagiri massif is one of the tallest and biggest mountain systems in the world. Long closed to visitors, for a variety of reasons – including its remoteness, the region west and north of Dhaulagiri was opened to trekkers, travelling in organized groups, in 1990 (?). This made it possible for trekkers to go behind, north of the Dhaulagiri massif, to explore remote villages and even more remote valleys, which had been the sole domain of mountaineers.
