The Last Campsite: A Window to the Pir Panjal Himalayan Range.

Namaste 🙏

Hope you all are doing great!

So here we were climbing on the top of the mountain above Shangchar village near Manali and we somehow lost track of time and also the distance how much we have hiked in just a short span of time. We didn’t expected to reach to the last campsite, but we somehow did, and that too without much exhaustion. We could still walk more, and we still had plenty of time to explore this mountain further.

Reaching the last campsite on this mountain-

As soon as we reached near to the campsite, we were greeted by two people who were sitting next to Fire at the campsite. They told us that a group is on the way to reach here. They told us that we host more than 20 people at once, and we provide them services like food and shelter.

It was good for us to know because this also assured that even if we got stuck up there on our exploration of The Mountain, we would still have someone quite nearby to help us, and we could also stay there at this campsite, even if we got late.

This motivated us to hike higher, and we continued hiking and enjoying the mesmerising views that were all around us. With every step, the view was getting better, and with every minute new energy was rising from within us.

We didn’t stop at the campsite for very long. We just waited there for about a couple minutes. Had a word with those guys and started walking again. Even we don’t know from where we got this sudden spell of energy in us. It might be because of the amazing views that we were seeing everything was covered in snow now, and there was a quite lot of snow on which we were walking.

From the below photograph, now you can see the view of campsite from the place, which was about five minutes away. This campsite was in a perfect spot as the area next to. It was quite steeper, so it felt like it’s on the edge. This campsite offers one of the best views from the entire Valley as you can definitely see from the photograph and just imagine living here.!!!

Moving up and beyond-

All three of us, including Mr Snow White, who has been following us since the start of our journey were really excited for the adventure that was waiting for us on top of this mountain. With every step, the snow was increasing, and so the difficulty of walking as we didn’t had any skis or snow gear with us.

To our relief. Now, there was suddenly a small patch of land where snow was completely melted. As this part of the land was exposed to the sun. We dried out our wet shoes which were wet from walking on the snow. Which of their only for about five minutes and we started back again.

Now there was huge piles of snow, waiting for us, and was welcoming us on top of the mountain. Now we had to cross this Jungle, and I was quite sure that it was going to be really difficult as the snow was still there, and it was very difficult to walk.

View of Pir Panjal Himalayan Range-

Now for a while, I didn’t capture much photos as I was busy in navigating our way, but at this particular spot, I couldn’t help myself as right in front of us was the best view of the Pir Panjal range of Himachal Pradesh!!

Now I don’t have any words to describe this view. These peaks are one of my favourite peaks in the world, and it’s my dream to be on top of them. Once my lifetime. It’s quite hard to climb them as they are more than 6000 m high from sea level

The peaks I’m talking about are Inrdasan and Deo Tibba. I have been hearing about these peaks since my childhood from various people and it has now become my dream to climb on top of them and seeing them a close right in front of me made me stop so we took a hard stop for about half an hour there to enjoy this view and soak ourselves in the mesmerising atmosphere that this place has to offer.

I’m gonna continue my journey from here onwards in the next blog. I think that is it for today. Thank you for passing by, stay tuned for the next one.

Peace ☮️