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Driving through the unknown trails beyond the last villages of the Himalayas, heading towards the cold mountain passes and the untouched lands hidden in the higher ranges.

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pranavinaction1.1 K2 hours agoHive.Blog6 min read


11:12 AM
Location: Somewhere around 100 Kms beyond Sissu Village Lahul.
Altitude: above 4500m

The Lands Unknown.


Julley Everyone,

A new day, a new beginning and a new adventure, and that’s something that has been going from the past few years or so, as me wondering, and exploring the hidden most corners of the Himalayas and trying to figure out and trying to explore as many beautiful occasions, as I could what that’s the true passion of a person like me is so here are few of the moments from my recent expedition of exploring the lands beyond the Himalayas. The lands beyond the himalayan mountain ranges, all the Way to the cold himalayan Desert, closer to the Ladakh region, where since I started my journey, all the way from Manali, it was not an overnight journey been to different mountain passes back-and-forth, and this is the memories from one of my adventure beyond somewhere around hundred kilometres away from the Sissu Village of Lahul and Spiti.


At a certain point in nature at a certain point in altitude or the mountains where everything just ends away, so was this point my friends, no soil, no land and altogether there were these piles of rocks formed one after another as it was the land above and beyond the non-tropical zone, most of the time of the year, the whole place being covered under a thick sheet of snow that lasts for almost more than half the time of the year and only the few days of the month of July and August is the time when we could visit the place, so was the stories and moments from that time of the month and the year.


Even the roots they just vanish overnight as it is the land above the Himalayas land beyond the cold and usually just think guys how the place would be in the winter season when the whole place will be covered under a thick sheet of snow and the whole place would look like a white snow paradise and my friends we need to make our way we need to make our way all the way to the Himalayan mountain passes, explore these countless number of valleys one after another, and the places totally unknown.


Making our way all the way through these mountains and few of the trucks making the road like something just like this, as there was no such a sort of a trail or a proper road. All that we had when these roads they do get blocked, the people usually make their own way somewhere or the near closer to as the roads, kind of looked something just like this.


A place with no cellular network, no network, even no Wi-Fi and even the GPS struggling my phone. GPS was also not properly working due to its remote conditions somewhere deep inside the himalayan valleys, where the signal usually struggles, so was I trying to figure out my location, my current location as I was not sure about that where we were headed to as it was totally a random adventure beyond the last corners of the whole lot of a different district of Himachal Pradesh, the Lahul and Spiti.


Found a spot and checked the current location, followed by the current altitude of more than 4600 above the sea level. That was quite a lot of elevation that we gained since morning, and when we reached at this spot.

The never melting glaciers.


Somewhere driving from more than quite a few lot of hours, we reached at this location, so getting a bit better conditions and saw these beautiful mountains, the mountains, unknown and the never melting glaciers nearby.


Also, the weather being so clear with the clear skies with little clouds, usually, the weather is totally unpredictable during this season and also this part of the geographical locations as that was something that the local told me when I was at the place that it might rain, and it might even snow at any particular time. As usually there have been times when in the peak summer time, the place has experienced unexpected snowfall in the past, because of the higher altitude or the positioning of this hidden most corner in this isolated world.


At certain points, it felt like that these were the corners. These are the portions at the top of the mountain and beyond, which was nothing but the endless sky.


Somewhere around 1 1/2 away, we reached at this portion from where we saw the conditions of the road now getting a bit better. Maybe we were closer to some himalayan mountain pass. Also, as the feeling that I was getting it was like we had gained quite a lot of altitude elevation and we were at a higher ground higher altitude that looked kind of something just like this with the beautiful sky is right in front of us and the endless sky.

My friends, I tried capturing as many photographs as I could so that I could share these hidden moments directly from the corners of the Himalayas to you as few of the most beautiful highways that in certain points turn out to be rude that it felt like did not exist, and then it came out to be this beautiful roads and trails nearby.

The end of the Valley.


After driving for more than 30 minutes or so from the place, the beautiful road constructed we reached at this spot from where it felt like it was the end of the valley beyond which it was starting of a whole new himalayan mountain range closer to Zanskar mountain range of the Ladakh region of Himalayas, the land beyond the Himalayas, starting of the cold himalayan desert.



The whole mountains, the whole portions. It looks like formed up of sand dunes like of that in the desert region, but all together it was the land beyond the cold Himalayan desert, the Himalayas, this portion of altitude. As all that I could see from far and far away, were these dry regions of the mountains formed up? I was really very fascinated to just think about that how the place look in the winter season when the whole portion is covered with a thick sheet of snow and the whole place would turn to be white paradise, my friends, it is the end of the adventure and I’m gonna share the adventure beyond in my upcoming blog post, sharing soon the adventure and astonishing stories from the Himalayas and adventure.

I have captured all of these photographs using my four year old Apple iPhone 12 and edit them using iPhone photo editor. Do let me know my friends. The photographs you like the most in the comment section, and I would love to hear it from you.


So that’s all for today, guys, I hope you like it.
Thanks for your precious time. 🙏
Love from the Himalayas. ♥️

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