The Three of us, myself, Dinakar Das and Ramesh were planning on hiking up to Hemkund Sahib when Akash asked us to rest at his campsite before we climbed up the next day. Ishwar Bhai promised to meet later as he had to catch up with everything that happened in the past 6 days. The story of one great Expedition ended there as we slowly marched towards Ghangaria, a few more kilometers of hike. Coming back to the crowd took some time for me to accept but it already made me unhappy, without any choice I marched as fast as I could to reach the helipad and waited for them. We then reached the given location to be welcomed by Sanjay. We were supposed to pitch our tents when Sanjay said we were told to stay in a hut and guided us there, served us tea and asked if we needed hot water to take bath? That was a moment of happiness, both me and Ramesh nodded a big yes. As we stopped our tea, he brought a bucket full of good hot water. After me I told Dinakar to wait for another bucket, he denied an...
As we left the Sadhu, we glided down the slopes enjoying the speed but for Dinakar he had to give himself some push whenever the cycle stopped. Turns out he parked the cycle in good condition at an ashram before going to Satopant and when he returned someone had broken a connecting part between the gear and frame. We planned to stay at the Gurudwara at Govind Ghat which we reached around 4 in the evening. Turns out Dinakar smoked too so while Ramesh rested we went out to have a smoke. Later that evening a Sadhu came and took a bed next to ours and joined in the conversation. That's when I heard the name Khagbasundi for the first time, Dinakar spoke about it before saying it was one of the toughest treks, both me and Ramesh were interested the moment he said it was one of the toughest treks. Ramesh watched a video and looked confident enough to do it. We had no clue about the distance or how many days we had to plan for but we knew we had to carry out groceries. After making sure we...