Chronicles of an Eclectic Life: kumaon

Moar pictures! I bid farewell to 2011 in my own style. It seems its the festivals when I find myself the time to decorate my site, and update others on my life - "life", as long as I could call myself among the living.

Here's the gallery to Chakrata bike trip (bike != motorbike), which me, and my partners-in-crime C and V (the other V) did on Christmas eve.

Here's the gallery to the Haida Khan to Babiyar to Guniyalekh trek, on New Year's eve, which was a solo effort.
Walking in Jim Corbett's footsteps, truly, as this would be the same route he'd do to reach Kala-Agar (presently known as Kalagarh), where he shot 'The Chowgarh Tigers' - one (the cub) in 1929, and the other (the mother) a year later in 1930.

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Attached is a lucky view of the Himalayas from the fields in Guniyalekh (spent a night here in 2007, remember?)

And following is the reference image (source) that helped me identify the massif - with beat icons Gary Snyder, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg in foreground, on their stay at Kausani.

Its the same massif that you can see in both the pics - Trisul, Nanda Devi, and Nanda Kot peaks, at almost the same angle, albeit about 80km apart (as the crow flies). Even Kausani (at 1890m) and G'lekh (at 1890m) are the same altitude.

Here is a second confirmation: a painting of the same by Arnold Henry Savage Landor, ca. 1900.

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