Matilda

What you seek is seeking you! That could be true only if you are open to seeking and exploring in the first place. The plunge to start a new hobby of trekking imposes on me an implicit responsibility to live upto its stature. With every new adventure, I try to discover knowledge from the surroundings and capture its essence. My recent escapade was to Prasher Lake and the town of Rewalsar with a group like no other. I describe four major highlights of this trek using pages and images…  Stride and slide till the snowline  'Red' carpet In thy nature is beauty In thy nature is pure white earth In thy nature are origins of my birth & worth The drive from Mandi to Baggi was one that made us observe night turning into day before we reached the village- the starting point of our trek. We were passing trucks ornated with danglers, hanging cutouts, painted faces, jingles and catchy phrases like ‘13 मेरा, 7 रहे’! The guide, we hired, was a winsome local named Raj w...

When in quandary, forget the laundry and leave behind the sundry! If the mind starts churning such poetic lines about moribund lifestyle, a short trek is the ideal getaway. Treks are energising despite being physically challenging. The neoteric approach to trekking is all about adrenaline rush and social media frenzy. But one can consider it as a self-challenge and a retreat from our just-as-usual lives. This is because these on-foot journeys give you a chance to pause and look at the bigger picture. Well,I must say I also had the John Muir instinct of ‘The mountains are calling and I must go’ in minor proportions. The chosen destination this time was Nag Tibba in Uttarakhand. We took a bus from Delhi to Chandigarh where our other trek mates joined us for the road trip till Pantwari. During the road journey, the radio was functioning rather erratically- the motion of the car and the windy roads made it difficult to catch the right frequency so it kept switching between differe...