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The Mountains Keep Sending the Right People
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The Mountains Keep Sending the Right People

Buran Pass, Chandranahan, and the Strangers Who Made It Real

Mount RoutesMarch 20267 min read
We Started as 3. We Finished as 8.<br />A Madhyamaheshwar Trek Nobody Planned This Way
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We Started as 3. We Finished as 8.
A Madhyamaheshwar Trek Nobody Planned This Way

Three engineering students planned Kedarnath, ended up at Madhyamaheshwar, and went from a group of 3 to 8 — all because of two strangers at a bus stand in Kund. A genuine first trek experience.

VinayakSeptember 20255 min read
Six Thousand Metres and a Porter Who Carried Me
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Six Thousand Metres and a Porter Who Carried Me

September 2018. Gangotri to Badrinath via Kalindikhal pass at 6000m. I got AMS, lost my hiking stick, and a porter carried me on his shoulders. This is that trip.

Mount RoutesSeptember 20187 min read

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