User talk:Dina Nath Bagale

Dina Nath Bagale (born 24 October 1979) is a Hong Kong Nepalese trail runner. He successfully participated in a number of major international competitions and has won different awards. Usually, he is the only one or among a small number of runners from Nepal. He was the second in the prestigious high altitude race Shangri la MeiLi100 Ultra Endurance Race in 2016 (an average elevation of over 3000 m). He was the only Nepali participant.

Biography He has participated in some of the world’s most challenging trail races. For example, Shangri la MeiLi100 Ultra Endurance Race provides runners a challenging high altitude running experience that takes place at the grand Himalayan Mountain range bordering Tibet in China. This ultra-trail running of 100 kilometers featuring 6000 meters of climb, at an average elevation of over 3000 m. It includes crossing a major pass at 3700 m. The highest point on the course is at 3880 m (Ice Lake). Early age Dina was born in a beautiful village of Bhimsen Thapa (Ward #1) Gorkha in a family of a farmer. From the early age he had been helping his father with the farm and at the age of 11 started his first business to support his family and studies at school. Although his primary school was in the village, he needed to travel 5 km to reach his secondary school at a very hilly terrain. Living in a mountain area gave him an opportunity to enjoy long walks through hills to visit his relatives, temples and buy food for a daily use. After graduation from school he went to India at the age of 18 to support his family and after coming back he established in Kathmandu from 1998 to work in a travel office and then as a trekking guide for two years. He took tourist to all basecamps of the 8 top mountains in the world that are located in Nepal.

Career Although Dina was not trained as a runner, his work as a porter and then as a tour guide gave him an opportunity to hike in the beautiful mountains of Nepal at a high altitude. During the times of civil unrest he moved to Hong Kong in 2005 where he joint Hong Kong Trail runners group as one of the organizers and participated in his first run in 2006 at the age of 27 in Hong Kong. He started with 100 km run, participated in Oxfam trailwalker. Since then he took part in a number of major world races including: UTMB Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc 171 km 2019 (36.10 hours) UTRMA Shangri La Meili 100 endurance race 2017 (2nd) China UTRMA Race 115km Kunming 2018 (5th) UTMF ultra trail MT. Fuji 168KM 2018 (36 hours)

He also took part in the international races in Hong Kong including: TransLantau 100km 2019 Vibram Hong Kong 100km 2017 and 2018 Oxfam trailwalker 100km 11 times (2006 – 2018) The North face 100 Hong Kong 2018 Barclays Moontrekker 2018 51 km Hong Kong 168 Ultra race 2017 MSIG Sky run 50 km Sai Kung 2017 Hong Chi Charity race Canter plaza Wan Cahi 75Floor 2017 Salamon Lantau Trail 70 km 2017

Over the 15 races registered at the Ultra Runners association website, he run more than 1568 km and that excludes 215 km run in China. Also, he participated four times in Hong Kong Marathon (an additional 168 km). In addition to professional races, he started to organize hikes and runs in Hong Kong to support Hong Kong community in advocating a healthy life style. To share his passion about running and hiking he established the Geographic Expedition Adventure Company in 2014 that enables him to share his experience and organize trekking and other tours in Nepal.