Dr.Trekker Explorer Farmer

Of late I started doing road trips and thoroughly enjoy. Twice Goa and Kokan, Jaisalmer upto the border and Koyna were my last trips. This particular one happened by chance and good it happened as this road trip would be very close to my heart. Our group planned for the Warwan valley trek in Kashmir and had to reach the basecamp of Panikhar around 60kms from Kargil. There were 2 ways of reaching there, one from Srinagar and other longer,tougher,time consuming, expensive and newly opened. We chose.....the latter. Our basecamp was in Suru valley in Kargil district so myself and 3 of my friends decided to fly 3 days prior and do the road trip all the way from Chandigarh. My dear friend Pammi, a renowned pediatrician from Kullu-Bhuntar helped me in booking the most important thing in road trip.....a good vehicle. To save time,we flew at midnight in an Air India Boeing 787 Jumbo filled to the capacity of 270 odd pax. I love my country's airline though it gets bad reviews. On...

LIFE OF A TREKKER  Days without any calls from the hospitals, anxious parents of their unwell kids,my receptionists,my staff at my farm and spam calls from loan providers, & just-dial. No messages of pending electricity bill and Jio-fibre. No WhatsApp chats. No mails wanted& unwanted. No electricity. No newspapers....though hardly anyone reads nowadays. 7pm dinner and 8pm bedtime (without bed obviously ) Washing our plates with ice cold water. Sleeping in a tent, getting inside the sleeping bags and adjusting the position (prone, supine &laterals with great difficulty. At the stroke of midnight..... sometimes later, getting outside the tent in a sub-zero setting to answer the call of nature and returning to the tent &following the same procedure again. 6-7-8 are the timings for wakeup tea, breakfast and start. No bath ,no shave, not changing the clothes many a times and sometimes no brushing. During the whole day we climb,get down,cross the r...