Hello, all you beautiful people. So a blog after long time.I m back with the answer of my absence during Summers.I did this Basic Mountaineering Course at the Directorate For Mountaineering and Allied Sports,Manali during july.After all of the wilderness and surreal natural experience of those 26 days , i have completely lost my heart in the woods and will never recover from the jolt of seeing the beauty of virgin land thousands of feet above the S.O.C.I.E.T.Y.The feeling of seeing nature in its truest form made me understand life in a better sense of reality and perhaps made my theory and vision of life more distinct.These notes will make u see the world through my eyes through 12 days while i was camped at 13k ft at Bakarthaj,Dhundi (Himachal).
Where the sight of goats grazing
in flashing green meadows lay,
Along with wild dogs running
with me running behind them
trying to chase them as fast as i can
all reckless,carefree n happy
And then suddenly standing still,
To gaze at the huge streams,waterfalls
Dancing around in the Woods.
Where fresh,chilly rains lay,
Where clouds lay in quiet repose,
Where birds fly high in silhouetting
by the glowing sun behind
ready to melt in the sky,
Where lies fierce winds that
jolts your senses to reality,
Where I lie in my truest form,
With vision of life clear,
While being caressed by nature
All real and bare with just
My hands and feet to guide me
and i rise up and find my direction
M.A.G.N.E.T.I.C.A.L.L.Y
as my flight if imagination takes off.
These also cover one of the most gratifying moments of my life of conquering everything to reach Camp1,Shetidher Peak at 16K ft.
After doing this , i felt more complete,earthly and more STRONGER.
Details:
We were in Manali for d first 10 days where our day started at 5 am and continued till 9 pm.We had rock climbing,jumaring and rappling spread over d the 10 days along with intense physical training,hours long trekking,lectures on techniques and history of Mountaineering and team spirit building games.All of this in the Nature's lap at 8k ft above with Snow Clad Himalays looking down at us.
After the 10 days we trekked for 2 days resting after the 1st day to reach Bakarthaj at 12.5 K ft.We pitched our tents there and stayed in the green meadows closer to the peaks for the next 10 days.We did Snow and Ice crafting there along with more lectures.The wilderness came in there as we had no mobiles,electricity or assets like a toilet even.We did shit in d open,never bathed ,the stream was so cold that we rarely washed our faces.We ate grains mostly with powder milk or chicken some days.The highlight of the trip was the 21st day when we did a peak called Shetidhar-Camp 1 at 16 k altitude.All the learning of 20 days applied there.The level was such that few of 70 people could complete that and luckily i was the 20 th person to do that.We went through the Beas Kund and above over ridges , snow and ice capturing unforgettable sights of Nature that were hard to believe and even imagine.The place was untouched by human activities which made it so much more exciting.We had started at 3 am in the morning and were back to our base by 2 pm.It made us so more stronger
We came back ,had our tests and awarded the degree of Mountaineering by IMF on the 26th.I highly recommend such a trip for a nature enthusiast
Links to lots of photographs covering the 26 days.
You can check out the details of the course on:
www.adventurehimalaya.org.
