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"It’s a bright autumn morning in 2022. We’ve hiked up a steep Himalayan
mountainside, heavily wooded with oak and rhododendron, to a sprawling meadow
on the old bridle route of the Hindu pilgrimage sites Gangotri and Kedarnath.
At 3,800 meters (12,467 feet), it feels like the top of the world, with grasses
and wildflowers as far as the eye can see, and the snow-capped Himalayan peaks
of Kalanag, Bandarpunch and Swargarohini beyond.
Dark clouds gather overhead; there is no shelter for miles. “The weather has
become increasingly erratic here,” says our trek guide Nawang. “It rarely rains
in October, but this year we have seen unprecedented wet weather which has
caused these gullies to fill and deepen.”
We make haste to our campsite, passing several gullies with frozen water. Soon
after we reach the warmth of our camp, it begins to snow, at least a month too
early for this elevation. This is the last day of our trek."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
