great himalayan national park Archives

GHNP Trek Day 7-9 – Lapa-Neuli-Kullu and civilization

Sandeep SomasekharanMarch 17, 2015March 16, 2015

Back to Kullu — and woeful civilization — after a half-done but nonetheless fulfilling trek in the Great Himalayan National Park. And, with that, we conclude this series by Sandeep Somasekharan.

GHNP Trek Day 6 – Descent or plummet to Lapa?

Sandeep SomasekharanMarch 13, 2015March 16, 2015

On Day 6 of our Great Himalayan National Park Trek we detour to Lapa from Dhel Thatch, making a slippery and treacherous descent

GHNP Trek Days 4-5 – Exploring Dhel and foiled plans

Sandeep SomasekharanMarch 10, 2015March 13, 2015

Our Great Himalayan National Park trek plan gets altered, as the path to Ghumtarao is snowed out. We end up doing local excursions at Dhel Thatch on day four and five, trying to spot some wildlife, and enjoying the fauna and the Himalayan sun.

GHNP Trek Day 2: Beyond the bridge, the wilderness

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 15, 2015January 18, 2015

Once we are across the bridge, it feels as if behind us a huge wall of forest has grown, shutting us out completely. It is silent, dark and mysterious. Day 2 of our Great Himalayan National Park trek, recounted by Sandeep Somasekharan

GHNP Trek – Day 1: An oxymoron called acclimating

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 10, 2015January 11, 2015

Day 1 was an ‘acclimatizer’. Ha. Acclimating is an oxymoron. Ask those who laboured up the slopes from Neuli to Shakti and ended up painfully breathless by the end of the day. Part 2 of Sandeep Somasekharan’s report of The Green Ogre trek to the Great Himalayan National Park in 2012

Great Himalayan National Park Trek – Day Zero – Warming up

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 3, 2015

Warming up for our trek to the Great Himalayan National Park, the Ogres spend time in Delhi, waiting impatiently to get there. Part 1 of a new series by Sandeep Somasekharan

Encounter – The Spotted Forktail

Bijoy VenugopalJune 11, 2013January 18, 2015

For many years, the Spotted Forktail was just an apparition in a dream. Now, happily twitched off the list, it is one of my favourite Himalayan birds.

When a rookie walks the Himalaya

Anand YegnaswamiJune 5, 2013July 1, 2015

I remembered a little affront I heaped at the mighty mountains when I landed at Aut. Taking a reel out of Apollo 13, I mimicked the scene where Jim Lowell covers the moon with his thumb and looked at a peak far away, murmuring, “As tall as my thumb.” Anand Yegnaswami reflects on his trek in the Great Himalayan National Park, one year later.