Laksar junction: at 1: 30 am
Starting our journey from Haridwar.
On the way, local tarnsport mode,
On the way to Uttarkashi.
Tehri Dam.
Wide range of himalaya, seen after Chamba.
A little village
Our Leader Anup Roychowdhury
When we were stopped due to procession.
Garwali boy.
Kamandalu to buy.
Camera baba.
Bhagirathi at Gangotri.
Gangotri temple.(me(red) with my brother).
Gangotri Temple in the lap of Himalaya.
Bhagirathi .
Dr. Arnod Chowdhury & Rakesh Halder.
himalaya from Gangotri(on a nice blue morning).
Gangotri,A bit rock climbing practice.(Kush)
Me,coming down.
Mysellf while rapelling down.
Sararat dhore hobe adda.
Last call to home(Anupda).
Gangotri temple (at night)
Gangotri Temple.
Apple tree..
Arnod-da, Dr Ranadeep Sengupta and Kush.
Rakeshda ,ready to go.
Myself, at the begining of the trek.
Sudarshan from far away.
Trek starts.
Those green pine woods nd blue sky
Mt. sudarshan.
Thora rest kar lo bhai.
Himalayan berry.(as told by our guide)
Geting within snowy walls.
Are cross koro yr, dont wait.
Ice cornice , Matri parbat.
Colors all the way.
Varity of green nd yellow.
Bhagirathi parbat.
Pinkyzzzzzz...
"Ek-khana megh bhese elo akashe"
Beauty in the blue sky.
While resting at chirbasa, myself.
Lets go boys.....
Bhujbasa reached almost.
At the dusk.
Silhouted himalaya.
Those dusky silhoutes.
This is now my wallpaper.
Last rays..
Its dawn ....
Bhagirathi getin colors.....
AHH... sun at last. bahut thanda yr..
Tent window.
Ranadeep & Anup-da.
Pack up.
Leaving tree line behind...
Shibling at last.(5 mins after Bhojbasa)
"Red Rackham's Treasure"
Mt. Sivling....challenging.
Ibex.(generally found only after 12000 ft at that region of Himalaya)
Bhagirathi peaks as a massive wall.
Our HAF , Gamukh temple.
Gamukh can be seen far away..
from Gamukh, turn ur lense back.
Bhagirathi started to crawl at the begining...
Gamukh (its ice )
Snout of the Gangotri glacier ..
Gamukh, from up above.
Those spots.....human
Shibling, Guard of Tapovan.
UP...UP...UP.... Uff its geting onto Gangotri glacier.tough a bit.
Glacier moraine....
Bhagirathi peaks..
lap of sibling...
thoda rest..
thats the way, we hav to move...
Light , camera , action....
Mt. Meru.
Tapovan.
Bhagirathi 2,3,1 from left to right.(sunset time)
cloud covers up..
Mt. Meru...bhorbela.
That great color,, which forced us to get out of the tent at -5.c
Shivling .... wen Sun kissed its crown.
Mt. Meru, the deadly wall.
It's our tent and Mataji's ashram
Kharcha-kund
Depuis- Tapovan
Kush & Ranadeep.
Ranadeep & me
That's snow, covering those brown leaves.
Ranadeep, Kush, Anupda and Babaida.
From our 4 men tent
Mountain in the Glasses
Bhagirathi 2,3 and 1(l to r)
Bhagirathi 3
Tapovan valley from high above.
getting Up above the nila tal
Meru.
Ibex... a rare collection
Ibex: at the base of shibling
Natural monumnet of an Austrian died durig shivling climb.
Samadhi...in Tapovan(husband of mataji). probably the best place to sleep forever .
Ibex herd came near our tents in the evening.
salt lover ibex..
Anupda and our porters gave them salt from our ration..nd they enjoyed it.
uffff..... HOT TEA enjoying inside sleeping bag. .
Snow flakes. It forms due to ovenight snow deposit nd wind blow, just as flower.
just as flower.
Trying to dry out the tent cover.
Shivling: playing with tennis ball.
snow crystals surrounding the boulder in jhora.
snow crystals.
sun rays reflects on snow crystals
Wating for the journey. Mataji's ashram behind.
Pigeon...
Pack up guys...
Theme thak....
time to pack up..
Chalo lets go....
carry on friendds....
Take a rest and njoy the beauty.
Bhagirathir-ke bckground-e rekhe.
path above the lateral morain of gangotri glacier(left).
Sudden End of the path , due to heavy snow fall on sep 20-22..(2008). next is all brushed away down under 300 ft.
Examining the gangotri glacier. from above.
spending leisure time wid bino and camera....search for ibex.
shivling.. time to sunrise
In the morning wen water freezed into ice
pebbles underneath the himalayan jhora, our only water source.
Tryin to get into a better place
Hey, wats up there?
Our total team.wid porters.
Five of us.
Get back..
reflection on sunglass.
Geting down into gangotri glacier.
Moraine zone..no way out.
just at the end of gangotri glacier, gamukh top.
A bugs life.
going behind this point requires special permission.
A sudden water source wid full of colors into it...
red leaf in bhujbasa.
back in bhujbasa.
colors, contrast...
Bhagirathi, the massif .from bhujbasa
Bhujbasa temple.
Ibex at the middle.
now u can see it.
on the way back to gangotri.
colors colors and only colors....
Can u remember? this is the same frame of himalayan silhoute u left behind ..
Oh this is Autumn in Himalaya...
Invisible Fountain...?
himalayan autumn ....
colors of autumn fall.. its heavenly.
Guard saluting u....
I will come back........DEFINITELY
