It’s Day Two at Wildrift’s camp in Shaama and the sun falls on the mighty Nanda Devi. The somnolent peak lights up in a pink blaze. Our group of seven loses control. Whoops of delight waft into my ears as I lie frozen in my stone hut. Cameras click in a frenzy.
The sun moves on quickly to warm Nandakot, Trishul, Panchachuli and the rest of the ice-caked mountain tops. I stir lazily and take a photo or two from my dying cellphone. It’s not even 7 am. We are in heaven. To be precise, on a flat piece of ground that juts out into an ocean of mountains, open on every ...
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