10 days, 1 mountain, and a school the world had forgotten

Photos: Gavin Paul McCormack

Late at night, after days of travel through landslides, collapsed bridges, jungle roads and freezing mountain passes, a small convoy finally reached the Jumla Valley in western Nepal. There were no streetlights, no paved roads, and no sense of urgency from those waiting. Time, here, moves differently. Local municipality leaders had been waiting for several days. The exact arrival time did not matter. What mattered was that the journey had been made.