Beas Kund to Camp1

Steep Climb from Beas Kund lake .. the beginning..

I wish I could show you the scale of steepness.. the grey scree bed is where we camped last night

see the frozen river turning, Camp1 is just above there somewhere... Slowly and steadily we where approaching our destination for day

I hope, Vivek climbing in the picture above, gives you the scale of steepness...

Not trying to Bragg here, but hell it was steep and our heavy bags made our life that much more difficult..

the peak right in center is the Shitidhar.. our penultimate target..

the frozen river, flowing underground..

if you enlarge the picture above, look at the two black spots on the left side, below Vivek... those are Chander and Ramu. I hope by now you get the scale of steepness...

soon the weather started turning its back on us... and Clouds engulfed the white peaks...

and in no time it started to Snow..

stuck in the Storm

Soon Chander and Ramu arrived at where we were waiting for them...about an hour or so away from Camp1

At first, we were enjoying the snow... so much so that the boiled eggs were out and yummy they tasted in those chilly weather...

we took a call and decided to wait for a while..to see if the storm calms down...

Chander advised us that, we could go up but if snowing dint stop, we would have to leave the Camp1 then and there itself... No matter even if it was 12 in night..

we waited a little while longer, but the storm kept on getting stronger..

we decided to call it a day and head back down ...

snow started ornamenting the shrubs...

soon we were at the Beas Kund lake, but snow still dint stop.. infact it only got stronger..

soon we arrived close to the glacial moraine again...

downhill after the Storm

Once we started crossing the Glacier, it stopped snowing.. but only briefly..

the tricky walk across the boulders.. especially when it rains and makes them slippery

Snowing, just changed the scenery.. total white out huh.. alright.. partial white out..

Dhundi now in sight.. way below and Bakar Thach in between...

across the moraine, downhill walk to Bakar thach..

Jerry posing on the way...

Once we crossed Bakar thach, the rains got heavy real heavy.. so off go camera in the bag... See you at Manali...