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Kinner
Kailsah Circuit (5242 m)
[THIS
REPORT WAS SUBMITTED BY: Gurrinder Pal Singh,
Gurpreet Singh & Samuel Arthur ]
HISTORY
According to Hindu scriptures,Kailash is
home of Lord Shiva. A God of dance and destruction.
This is very sacred peak and locals do not
like any climbers here.This is circuit
of this sacred peak which was hardly visible
during our adventure..hidden in clouds.Trek
goes through pastures, rocky mountains
and then high altitude of 5242 Mtrs. of
a Lalanti-La...which is hand -knee job .
Reaching
Thangi :- Thangi is well connected
by road with Shimla. Ancient silk
route...now known as Indo-
Tibetans
road . We started from Punjab. We
were three friends. Beside myself
,Mr. Gurpreet Singh, (Chief Pharmacist)
and another G.P singh , Gurrinder Pal
Singh (Lecturer ) having brand new
Maruti 800 cc car of Gurpreet Singh.
We reached Chandigarh and stopped
for lunch. At 1.30 PM, I was on driving
seat and we were off for Shimla. We
reached Shimla around 5.0 PM and it
was still day light so we decided
to pull on. But heavy traffic and
very bad road shape created a foggy(dense)night
and sudden fall of temperature and
by 8.0PM we landed in a hotel in PHAGU...tired
...we had dinner and we slept. Early
morning, at 6.30 ,I started for RAMPUR
BUSHEHER . It was a sunny day
and we all liked the country side
view of Himachal Pradesh. Both my
friends were interested to "fresh
up" so I applied brakes near a waterfall.
By 10.30 AM ,we were crossing
Rampur Busheher. We were enjoying
classical music as well as regae...BOB
MARLEY is somewhat great help in such
type of drives as it keeps the
mood up. REKONG PEO is Distt.
HQ. in summer. We saw lot of people
celebrating independence day.
Drive from Rekong Peo to Thangi is
bit stressful as it needs lot of experience
and control over the vehicle. It
if 6Ft. road with blind cuts and
river Satluj roars...hundred of feats
below.....I reached Thangi at
5.0 PM and by 5.30 we started climbing
towards the village after parking
the vehicle near old ITBP post.
Thangi
to Lumbar :- We started early but
arrangement of kerosene took some time
and after getting registered at ITBP post(which
is very necessary,in case...)we started
our trek only to see that my Made in Thailand
rucksack could not tolerate the load and
opened like anything Surjit Negi ,a local
friend had been with us...he had some
urgent work and could not accompany us
He came for "see off" but when he
saw badly damaged rucksac..he went back
with astonishing speed and gave me his
own. Somehow we started again and after
having first encounter of trek,nature,adventure
of walking on thin lines...we reached
Lumbar...a small village.We were four
now as our porter young,dark guy from
Nepal.We call him Bahadur.Thangi to Lumbar
is 2-3 Hrs walk for an average pace.After
dinner,we had a good meeting with ITBP
personal at lumbar as my friend has dropped
keys of car somewhere ,and naturally he
was in bad mood......We started at 7.0AM
for Surting....our next stop
Lumbar to Surting :- After
getting out from Lumbar ...the trek starts
its upward journey and in sharp sun it
become good effort to walk. From Thangi
to Surting-Charang....the trek goes on
the bank of "Lumbar Gad" gad is known
as stream and it falls into Satluj river
at Morang...which is on way to Thangi
from Reckong Peo. It took us three hrs.
to climb first part of the trek and by
going through rocky ridges,we reached
Surting at 3.30 PM. For an average pace
,It is three hrs journey depends upon
attitude,load,weather and partner....
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