Climbathon 2014 – Bara Shigri Glacier part 6
Twist in the Tale Another incident which initially caused us to drench with sweats in the middle of cold nights at snout camp; but turned out to be the most funniest part of the expedition in the end; happened while we were coming back to snout from the base camp after the summits. Trek from base camp to snout camp, for a normal trekker would have taken eight hours to reach. (While going up we had an intermediate camp. But while descending we had to skip IM and directly go to the snout thus increasing the duration and the difficulty of the trek) Needless to say for slow hikers, dark walk was but obvious. After two days of copious snow fall, we left the base camp by 9:00 AM on 29 th . All of us were walking at our own paces in buddy pairs. I was walking with Dada who usually stops after every 10 minutes, but on that day he was walking remarkably faster with very little breaks. Toolika and Saachi were just behind us and walking steadily. Pranav and Marishaa were a few mi...