I was standing at 8000 feet above sea level, looking through the camera lens. What I saw was amazing as..
With all its strength, peaking through air from above the clouds, oozing majesticity and might, 380km from my feet, still visible clearly through the naked eye.
As my driver talked told us how people in the mountains live eating only what they grow, and how rice is manually threshed and milled before marketing, I looked at the apple farms terracing from the hills like that in a child's drawing sketch book. As he maneuvered the cuts and curves like a snake charmer, I tried to get a glimpse of this massive compound of dark rock, black dirt, snow, and glistening ice, that held itself above 24300 feet.
Nanda Devi, a gigantic carving of nature between the valley of Rishganga and Goriganga, holding ground in the Garhwal Himalayas.
It shone like a mammoth chiseled superstructure angled to perfection of the beholder's perception.
Upon reaching Mukteshwar peak, I could see the unambiguity of each mountain in the snow clad Northern Himalayan range. Nanda Devi, Nanda Kot, Nandaghunti, Trishul and five peaks of Panchachuli stood proudly.
Towards the South and East were the Kumaon Hills of Uttarakhand. And how I felt is hard to put to words..
Its not what I felt within me, but something that my mind wanted to relate to their loftiness.
great, awe-striking, grand, elegant, egotistical, credible, reputable, esteemed, dignified, honorable, deemed proud-blooded (if that makes sense at all)..
Now I want to climb the Himalayas. :-)
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