Dheet Trekkers in Lahaul and Spiti
Route taken: Delhi-Chandigarh-Shimla-Spiti-Lahaul-Manali-Chandigarh-Delhi Date: 18th June – 25th June, 2011 View Larger Map When under-preparation meets over-excitement, you’re usually headed for disaster. But not when luck is on your side, and when the risk takers are professional bunglers par excellence. For even had we prepared ourselves for the trip we were about to undertake, the outcome would not have been much different. With caution thrown to the wind and our heads deprived of oxygen and our blood streams full of toxic carcinogens, we would have still done the same things that went wrong. And we would still have had the same great time that we had fighting the odds and the gambling with what was to come. It takes one brave mind to think up an audacious plan, and a thousand fools would follow. When Araib Hassan , our captain and land navigator announced a round trip to Lahaul and Spiti valley in Himanchal Pradesh, we just knew we had to go. Ever since we have left