Showing posts with label Gaurdians of Himalayas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gaurdians of Himalayas. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Only once more................



Okay just had some panaromic views of the place where i spent so much time and have such fond memories...
Then we talk about something else....
Just one request to fellow bloggers -- do leave a word or so of advise, or comment -- it just encourages me.
In the second photograph that you see you see the frontage of the company I commanded. The adversary was across the ridge you see on the horizon and to the right of the photograph. due to some distortion while stitching the photographs it seems that the slopes are gentle but believe you me... they were anything but gentle. to traverse this it used to take an average of 12hours trip going and coming back and the men being pulled up with ropes that you saw in the previous photograph .. they were along short of the highest point along this only. Infact if you look carefully the entire route traversed during the night can be seen on the snow. all along the ropes were tied lest a person gets disoriented or slips down. From the topmost point that you see we lost some equipment that fell down and it was recovered 2Km down in a ravine... well actually it could never be recovered.
The third photograph is the view across and a post on the top. See the fall -- crazy when you will be told that adversary actually tried a climb and assault.