Exploring the Ancient Trails of Hamta Valley Himalayas. Expedition from Jorbi to Chikka Base Camp. Day 2

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Been Days and Days wondering the hidden Lands of The Unknown.
Somewhere Lost finding Ourselves.
The Innner and True of Ourselves.
In This Magical World!

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Julley Everyone,

Been days and days, nights and nights, wondering this magical lands, the ancient lands that once were considered to be the trail to the heaven. Since the Asian times of Hindu methodology, this was the place which led to the stairway to heaven. There has been many Ancient stories, tales depicting this place to be a stairway to the heaven, so we thought let’s not explore this place and capture the true beauty of this place.
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So here we were, it was a second day of camping in this valley and yesterday the last night we spend a night at this place as I have shared about it in my previous post that how we spent our night under millions of stars. we could clearly see the whole Milky Way galaxy and other stars even saw many falling stars too with our naked eyes.

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It was quite cold at the night, so will it a fire, but after while the fire got over but still heavily scenes of the sky at the night kept us sitting over there that too in cold, we were too deep into this, and we were looking at the sky, and it was just wonderful, wonderful as it seems like, I would never forget that moment.

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So finally, after packing our bag, it was time to go to the another campsite which was known as Chikka base camp, the mountain right in front of Us, which had half sunlight that was asked from the place where we were at the moment it would require more than four hours to reach that place, though it seems quite near, but it was but it was really far. There were no trees and nothing but just straight Valley there to a deep valley, though there was the reason why it seemed so near, but as we were getting closer to eat more far, it went from us.

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So no time we just went closer and close it to a journey started our journey as you can see in this picture. We were really very excited guys to reach the place. We left our tents at the point so that we might just go to the place and see and explore the valley and come back to this campsite so that the next day we can go to another valley another side of the mountain and we can capture its beauty to so right in front of us, the mountain which could be seen, it was a journey for today, and I will be sharing the whole journey of this expedition guys.

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So it was around 8 AM in the morning when we packed up bag and started our journey we had to cross this Nala. The river and there was this old bridge made by the ancient got these the local Shepherd who used to cross through this bridge, the water was really very cold. So was this place the temperature was around 4°C And at night it went to -8.

At the moment we were about an altitude of 4200 m from the sea level and we were at a great altitude to. I have heard that many of the people they face trouble and altitude sickness beyond 4500 m and we did not want to take that risk as we were getting far far closer. The less thinner the air was getting, but we had carried carried the medicinal foods, which would cure the altitude sickness, as there is a thing known as lasson that we carried and eat early morning, which would not make us feel altitude sick.

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Starting over here, covering the river and crossing it over walking through this wooden bridge, which would lead us to the other side of the valley, and we have to make away by the side of the river in order to reach the mountain, which could be seen right in front of us.

So were we in no time started to cross the river we could see that water. It was freezing cold, though it was not frozen, but it was really very very cold, and we finally covered the distance up and reached the other side of the valley.

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The sun was rising, and slowly it would make the whole valley light up from its rays. After crossing the river, we came to the other side of the valley, and we have to make our ways through by the side of the river over these rocks.

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It was quite difficult task, making our way through these pebbles, as we even had heavy backpacks, which carried our food for the rest of our day.

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Another mysterious thing that I saw during this expedition was these piles of stones. I don’t know why they were there or who kept kept them, but it was a mystery guys as this place. No one really comes to this place and I don’t know who has kept these piles of rocks. Maybe they are from the ancient time or fear of the Gaddi Shepherd have kept it for a purpose.

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Do this area, it was a sort of wildlife. I even came across many skulls of the dead animals as you can see in this picture to.

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It has been more than an hour when we reach this point, the mountain it could be seen right in front of us, but it would know nearly more take four hours of high continuously. It was getting far far. I don’t know why guys, but it was really a magical experience as we were getting closer to the mountain for the mountain, and it’s Sumit.

It would be nearly a difficult task for us to reach the summit of the peak as no one has ever reached the summit of this week. Our plan wants to just reach at the midpoint, so we could make our way and reach at the other side of the mountain and explore the valley.

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Slowly and Slowly, the sun light was coming down towards us, and it was really a feeling that the sunlight was blessing us early morning to our new expedition.

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An expedition that I have planned this summer when my brother went to the top of the Brigu lake mountain and captured the whole valley in his drone footage, so we made a plan that why not export this part of the Himalayas and see the beauty of it and explore this unseen place.

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Though many of the people they have crossed the Huta Valley, but Hamta Valley and Hamta pass it was a different story. The plan that we had today was to go towards the extreme left of the place and explore the other side of the valley, which would lead us to the Lahul and Spiti region of Himachal Pradesh.

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After a while, we came finally to the footsteps or the foothills of the chick mountain week. It took us more than 2 1/2 hours to reach the mountain, though cover and lot of distance to cover so that we could nearly cross this mountain reach at the other side of the mountain, which was a final destination.

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At this point, though, even though the water in the stream and the Nala was getting, and as we were getting closer to the frozen glacier, from which which was the main source of this river, we were getting closer to it.

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So finally, at around 10:30 AM, we finally reached at the footstep foothills of the Chika Mountain, where I capture this photograph of my cousins who were my teammates on this expedition and made this expedition a successful moment.

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From here too, we had a lot to go, and you can still see that how far the mountain still looks like from this place, it would nearly take more than 4 to 5 hours to cross this valley so that we could reach at the other side of the mountain peak.We were happy enough that we reached at this point on time so that we could even go to the other side of the villian explore the other side of the valley, which was a final task of the day.

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So around 11 AM, we finally saw a trail an ancient trail that I don’t think anyone has ever came across. It was used by the Asian nomads of this place and maybe it could be the ancient to the heaven. It was really a happy moment guys when we finally reached at first point, and it was the Chikka Campsite.


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The vegetation at this point, looked something like this down, there was the river flowing and up there a few of the bushes and they were green and beyond that there were the Deo-dar trees.

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It was really a wonderful experience guys that I wanted to share it with you and exploring such places. It really makes me happy and it really motivates me to do more and go further and explore the unseen lens and capture the beauty of it and share with the masses and even share it with you guys, so that even you guys could see the true picture of the same and true heavenly places on this earth.


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So that’s all for today, guys, I hope you like it.
Thanks for your precious time. 🙏
Love from the Himalayas. ❤️


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