According to Jiwa Lamichhane, a travel writer is a documenter, who captures the place, nature-culture, feeling and time in words. After visiting the continent of Antarctica with an area of ​​14.2 million square kilometers located in the southernmost part of the earth, he wrote - 'Akshat Antarctica'.

Written in a simple-artistic style, this travelogue takes the reader on a journey through the talismanic world of Antarctica. Deepak Sapkota 's Antarctica with Lamichhane, who thinks 'travellers take travel as a school of life':

The song 'Journey is life' was written for you. What is travel? What is a traveler?

, what that song is trying to say is compatible with our life, it is also compatible with my life. Traveling is not just about crossing geographical distance, it is also a process of accumulating life experiences. Travel is also a way to understand the reality of life closely and experience it. In traveling we not only see new places, but also interview with our thoughts, feelings and possibilities. A traveler is not just a person who reaches a destination and returns like a tourist. A traveler is one who accepts every journey as a school of life! The traveler absorbs every part of what he has experienced, seen and felt. Places and experiences speak in the eyes of travelers! Walking is not just motion, it is also thinking.  What is the difference between being a

writer and a travel writer? A

writer is a broad creator, who creates based on imagination, study or perspective. However, travel writers translate direct experience into words. A writer creates a character from imagination, while a travel writer combines place, context and feeling from direct experience. A travel writer is actually a documenter, who captures in words the places, cultures, surroundings, feelings and times he has visited.

travelers and tourists in the same purpose? What's the difference?

Actually, both travelers and tourists travel, they go to new places, they gather experiences. However, their perspectives and objectives are probably different. Tourists mostly travel for vacation, fun or let's say entertainment. Their priority is to see places, take photos, enjoy scenic views... However, 'Yatri' is something different. The traveler tries to understand the geography, culture, society, history and people of the place. A traveler's journey is 'approach' focused and a tourist's journey is 'destination' focused. So the tourist only completes the 'journey', but the traveler 'feels' the journey through the mind.

So are you an Antarctic traveler or tourist?

I went to Antarctica as a tourist. But I tried to understand Antarctica in depth. It wasn't just a trip to take photos or tick off places visited. That trip was my attempt to communicate with the pristine terrain of a new and strange place on earth.

The writing of 'Intact Antarctica' is different from your previous two books. Why should a writer break a previous writing style?

The writer's style changes according to time, experience and subject matter. When a writer has a new kind of experience (especially a strange and unique experience like I did on my trip to Antarctica), the old style is not always enough to express it. While writing 'Intact Antarctica', I realized that the traditional style of this experience would probably be curtailed.

So I tried to create a new structure by mixing history, narrative, facts and details. A writer sometimes needs to break with his traditional writing and adopt a new format, so that the reader can vividly feel the depth and variety of experience. Creation is experimentation, and innovation is often reflected in that experimentation.

'Travel' is popular in the contemporary writing genre. However, whether they have personal and impersonal, contemporary and historical and regional themes? What is your review on Nepali Niatra?

I have found the travel genre to be popular in contemporary writing, as it gives the writer the freedom to vividly present their experiences. Historical, social and cultural contexts are mixed with the expression of personal point of view in Niyatras. There are also some

writing zones. However, I find that most writing is subjective. In Nepal, I have seen a lot of potential for Niatra writing. We have mountains, hills, plains, culture, ethnic diversity, footpaths, historical heritage and multilingual society, which can inspire us to cover historical and regional aspects as well. 

In 1911, Bhuvansingh Vishwakarma reached Antarctica in 043 from Nepal. You also talked to him while writing this book. That conversation and how much has Antarctica changed since you just got there? What are the similarities between his journey and yours? Which is more exciting?

Bhuwansingh Vishwakarma was the first Nepali to reach Antarctica. Talking to him, I felt that the journey at that time was much more difficult and risky than today. Lack of technology, difficulty in communication and lack of clear weather information made his journey not only adventurous but also historic. His journey was focused on scientific discovery and he arrived there as a team-mate of researchers. However, the trip we took was a trip with technical facilities and preparations. In terms of experience, the journey was exciting for both of us. Both journeys must have their own beauty and different significance. 

Tourism has started to flourish in Antarctica as well. How much is the fear that the intact land will be damaged by the infection of human steps? Are the snow environment and animals safe from humans?

Antarctica is one of the truly unspoilt and last pristine lands on Earth. However, there is also concern that the expansion of tourism and human pressure may bring danger there. However, international treaties are also trying to ensure the preservation of Antarctica. After the trip, I felt that sufficient efforts have been made to maintain the balance between the tourism business and the environment. 

The creatures like glaciers, mountains, penguins, seals, whales, albatross will be affected by the heavy traffic of people, and the use of plastic-fuel etc. can increase the risk of environmental pollution. I am convinced that the presence of tourists will not harm the environment there. 

I often see our travel writers reveling in 'go to the village'. Travel writing is also about archiving history. What do we need in travel-writing? It is my opinion that

travel writing should be documented not only as a means of fun or entertainment, but also to document the factual, historical, social and cultural issues of the places visited. While visiting a place, one should also understand the people living there, their traditions and customs. Only if the facts, context, emotional combination and feeling are matched, that Niatra writing can do justice to the reader.

You have written in the book, 'I firmly believe - send a white man to Antarctica, he will return as a poet.' What is it in Antarctica that makes everyone a poet?

Antarctica is a place where silence is speech. Even the Snow Empire seems alive. Even the emptiness seems to have fragrance. Its vastness, the expanse of the white empire under the blue sky and the desolation of nature 

s are so impressive that they strike a chord in everyone's heart. Antarctica holds the power to shake the soul of every sensitive human being. 

Returning from Antarctica, you had travel excitement, curiosity and questions. Have they all been written in this current memoir or are there more to be written?

'Unspoiled Antarctica' is an attempt to put into words the travel experience of a vast and unspoiled land. Even though the journey is over, the feeling continues. I still remember the scenes there. In this sense this memoir is not complete. I still have many topics, questions and feelings, which cannot be written in this. 

"I can't describe the sound of the sea that I heard at 2 o'clock in the night." What exactly did that sound make you feel? Does that sound still ring in your ears?

That voice was not just a sound, it was a kind of heart feeling, where the written words end. How to put into words the moment when the sea seems to tell its stories in the silence of the night? I can still hear that hum when I close my eyes and it feels like Antarctica is still calling me there.

As post offices and post men are disappearing in Nepal, you send a letter to your wife from a post office in Antarctica. Was it guaranteed that a letter sent from that remote corner of the earth would reach the addressee? Let's hear the feeling of receiving a letter after a long time after returning from a trip!

While the tradition of writing and dropping letters by post is disappearing, it is still there. I was delighted to have the opportunity to 'continue' that tradition which is about to disappear! I wrote that letter with the intention that such small things should also be experienced during the journey.

I was sure that the letter would reach its destination on time. The letter arrived at our home address a few weeks later. Vindita was happy after reading the letter. We are living in the digital age, we often write letters digitally. After reading that letter, she said - you still have the habit of writing long letters by hand! 

Before reaching Antarctica, you witnessed the terrible waves of the sea when you had to pass through the Drake Passage. What is the witness statement of that 12-day journey? What are the unwritten stories of Antarctica in the book?

Drake Passage's journey is hard to put into words. When the huge waves of the Drake Passage shook the ship, I thought that human life is like this, sometimes calm but sometimes violent! Although I tried to include some experiences in the book 'Intact Antarctica', some feelings were not possible to put into words, or rather they were lost in the flow of writing. Those unwritten experiences are still safe in my mind.

How to express in words the curiosity and innocence seen in the eyes of the penguins who are frolicking in solitude? Even if I try to write something about the symphony of the sea, it is not the full sound of the music I felt.