A photo gallery with a bunch of previously unseen photos from the 'Steady Stoop'n in Nepal' trip. Over spill from the print article in NW Zine issue 4.
Shot & captioned by Greg Barnes (unless otherwise stated) on 35mm film and digital.
Unpublished trip notes by Sam Dowley:
"On my second last day of riding in Kathmandu I mused to Greg that because of the abundance of pitched concrete roofs and terraced suburbs there MUST be a roof that you can ride onto from the footpath somewhere in Kathmandu. Sure enough we found such a monster the very next day. Someone had built their two story house against a massive retaining wall and the roof butted into the footpath perfectly. One side was death drop and if you went to fast you would get tangled in the power lines draped across the roof. Every Kathmandu spot has its quirks".
"It seems like everyone in Kathmandu owns a motorbike. And every building has steps out the front, where every man woman and child get their stoop on. But how do you get your prized motorcycle up those steps and indoors at night. Pour a concrete flat bank of course. Out the front of nearly every building……"
Click our video page above to see the footage.
Shot & captioned by Greg Barnes (unless otherwise stated) on 35mm film and digital.
Unpublished trip notes by Sam Dowley:
"On my second last day of riding in Kathmandu I mused to Greg that because of the abundance of pitched concrete roofs and terraced suburbs there MUST be a roof that you can ride onto from the footpath somewhere in Kathmandu. Sure enough we found such a monster the very next day. Someone had built their two story house against a massive retaining wall and the roof butted into the footpath perfectly. One side was death drop and if you went to fast you would get tangled in the power lines draped across the roof. Every Kathmandu spot has its quirks".
"It seems like everyone in Kathmandu owns a motorbike. And every building has steps out the front, where every man woman and child get their stoop on. But how do you get your prized motorcycle up those steps and indoors at night. Pour a concrete flat bank of course. Out the front of nearly every building……"
Click our video page above to see the footage.