The author relives his arduous and adventurous trek to Gaumukh and Tapovan
Shyam Saran November 5, 2016 Last Updated at 00:30 IST
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In my several years of trekking in the Himalayas, I somehow never got the opportunity to visit one of the most sacred and revered places of pilgrimage: the Gaumukh glacier where the holy Ganga is born. And further ahead, across the glacier and climbing a sheer cliff face of a thousand metres, is the pristine alpine meadow of Tapovan whose ethereal beauty was for me mostly hearsay from envied trekking companions. In the last week of October, I finally made the long-awaited journey to this hallowed land. It was no doubt a test of physical endurance but also a spiritual quest, connecting ...
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