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Sri Hemkunth Saheb: Remembered Across Lifetimes
A Place Remembered Before It Was Found Most pilgrimage sites have a history. Hemkund Sahib has something rarer — a memory. A Guru described it from a previous life. It took two centuries to find it. In his spiritual autobiography written in the late seventeenth century, Guru Gobind Singh — the tenth and final Sikh…
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A New Lake Everyday_Kashmir Unlocked.
Why We Trek Himalayan treks sort themselves, roughly, into a few broad categories. There are the summit attempts — physically demanding, technically challenging, the kind where the objective is a point on a map at altitude and everything else is in service of reaching it. There are the cultural treks — routes through villages, monasteries,…
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Banff National Park: My encounters with Paranthas, Bears and Glaciers
Calgary: The Subcontinent Arrives First The journey to Banff began in Calgary, which is where most journeys to Banff begin, and where — I was about to discover — the Indian diaspora has been quietly and comprehensively solving the breakfast problem. I had expected the usual McDonalds, Diner café or Applebees options on the road.…
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Himalayas lying down to sleep at sunset.
Tea, a Gurkha, and an Unlikely Group The Sandakphu trek began, as many of the best things do, over tea with a stranger. I had arrived in Mirik — a small hill town in the Darjeeling district and checked into a Gurkha family’s bed and breakfast. Over tea — Darjeeling, obviously, grown on the slopes…
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The Mountain That Almost Sent Me Back
The Wrong Side of Fifty, on the Right Mountain I was fifty-two years old at the start of this trek, which made me the oldest person in a group of twenty-five. The others were fit, young, and had recently done things like half marathons and high-altitude treks in quick succession — all of which were,…
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Where Shiva Lives: Barefoot at 5300 meter summit
The View from the Orchard My wife Sanju is from Himachal Pradesh, which means that my relationship with the western Himalayas has always been personal in a way that most travel isn’t. It was on one of those summer visits, staying with Sanju’s family in Theog — an apple village in east Himachal — that…
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