Keep Going!!!

It was a perfect day with the nature .The breezy ,cool and sunny atmosphere made it even more idyllic. Our current destination was Dwali,11 km from our current stay.This time the trek was very smooth and not at all nerve-racking. The hinterlands were very calm in the early morning chill. The most striking path I have ever seen in life till date , was the path from Khati to Dwali. Beautiful streams running all through the conduit, with trickling pure waterfalls ,the chirping birds... amidst all this, Anchal and me walked slowly together,humming pleasant songs all through the way.There was a waterfall which fell upon a rock shaped like the teddy bear head with water just touching its open mouth and overflowing which was something quite interesting and purely natural.
We started off to Furkiya our night halt, about 5km, after lunch.It was a very dreary and dicey climb, with serious landslides on the way.We had to cross the landslide by crawling over the terrain with the roots being our bare grip.It was quite adventurous. One side of the sky was clear and the other was flocked by nimbus clouds forming a very beautiful ether making me forget the tiring trek. There was another mountain adjacent to the one which we were climbing ,separated by the Pindari River ,with beautiful waterfalls .All this sceneries looked like the ones I had read about in my childhood fairy tales . We stopped at the end of a cliff and I spread out my arms and felt the affable zephyr touch me like a smooth feather.Our destination Furkiya was extremely glacial about 2 or 3 degrees!!!

‘FINALLYYY!!!!!! THE PINDARI GLACIER’

‘Ouch!’ Someone was waking me up ‘too’ tenderly and my dream shattered.It was 3.30AM and it was freezing outside.It was pitch dark and we started our trekking amidst few dim torchlights!!!
It was more of a night trek than a morning or dawn trek.But the path was very risky.
I could see my breath in the air.It was still chilled after wearing five layers of thick and warm clothing and gloves. To top it all my shoes got wet while crossing a waterfall and my feet froze and started paining. Slowly dawn broke and the first ray of the sun touched the peak and it was shimmering gold which kept me going!!!
We created a record to be the first team to touch the zero point in three hours (7km).We clicked beautiful photographs near the glacier and slowly made our way back.We stopped at Babaji’s ashram and took his blessings and ‘Tea’!!! Anchal and I trekked back together, sharing a lot of girly things with each other and humming songs together ,forgetting the pain .We were the first ones to reach the point.
Our halt for the day was back at Dwali.Again both of us were together.We had to cross the same landslide again but this time it was even more risky and exciting. We thought we'll be together till we reach back to Delhi.But destiny had different plans...........

I'll reveal it in my next post!!!