ONE RIDE AT A TIME
It’s pre-monsoon season in Nepal, towards the end of April, and I’m walking a maze of dusty streets in the busy tourist district of Thamel, in the centre of Kathmandu.
I enter the office of Himalayan Single Track (HST), one of Nepal’s prime mountain bike-guiding organisations, and the beating heart of the cycling community. Jenny Caunt, an energetic woman with a big smile, greets me. She’s one of the founders of HST and is easily recognisable by her Aussie accent. Eleven years ago she fell in love with Nepal while rafting and hiking the country, and settled in the capital.
She worked those first few years at several non-profit organisations before having a go at making a business from her number-one hobby—mountain biking. Together with Santosh Rai, a Nepalese mountain bike fanatic, she founded HST, and it proved to be