Day started off with exercises to get our body and mind adjusted to the weather and heights. The base camp is @ 6000 ft and it was essential for this acclimatisation process to start here. Jogging, followed by core exercises were completed and the group came back for breakfast. After that, we all packed our ruck sacks / backpacks for a short trek and rappelling.First stop at the rappelling point, we were given instructions about rappelling and the instructors did a demo. Then one by one we all completed rappelling down a 55 ft cliff. Once that was done, a short trek uphill followed by a descent was done and we returned back to the camp for lunch.
Photo: Field Director Shravan Kumar Sharma giving instructions to the group on rappelling.
Post lunch, we segregated our belongings into two backpacks / bags. One for the trek and one to leave @ the base camp. By the time we got that sorted out, it was evening and we were ready for the tea and dinner routine.
Around the same time, the batch that left on 15th May - 40+ students from a college in Mumbai had returned. So the dinner time we had more people in the camp. Additionally 7 more people reported for their trek starting from 24th. Since that was a small group, they were merged into ours, making ours 28. Their acclimatisation was quickly done by an evening trek and they joined us for dinner and intro later.
The group that just returned warned us that the first trek will be the most difficult. With that in mind and the excitement of starting the trek, lights went out @ 10:00 PM :-)
Photos from day 2:
Acclimatisation & rappelling photos
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