Let the 3rd Pole Breath..!

Ravi Sorathiya
Invincible NGO
Published in
9 min readSep 19, 2018

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Finally, the day comes, for which we are waiting for months.

It’s 19th MAY we all were together at NGO’s house, bopal.we just had dinner, packed our bags & went to our beds. everyone just slept beside our four (Abhishek Bhai, Ronak Bhai, Paresh Bhai & me). Who knew that this night four best buddies were going to meet.we did so much fun. at that night we laughed so hard that our stomach started hurting. We named our group the “BAJARANG DALL”.Around 3 AM we slept.

On 20th MAY at early morning we woke up and started to collect our bags & other things.scorpio arrived and we five(bajarang dall & swapnil bhai) get into it. Kushal bhai was there to drop us at kalupur station. We also had lots of fun in Scorpio also. We all had some memorable memories at that night & in Scorpio. We reached kalupur station, we got our tickets and other members of the team reached one by one. Now we are waiting for RUSHIBHAI (Founder & managing trustee of INVINCIBLE_NGO).RUSHIBHAI has arrived & we click some photos with him and with TRI-COLOUR. it’s almost 11 AM, time to depart from Ahmedabad. We all boarded the train and our journey starts towards the Pathankot. Those two days in that train we had lots of fun, some of the team members were new but at the end of this two days journey we all became a good friend.

It’s 21st MAY around 5 PM we reached Pathankot junction.we went to our hotel which is just nearby the station. We got our rooms and then we decided to reached our Manali campsite by the bullet on the second day, And ya that night was BINGO, ones again our bajarang dall, we four were together in one room.

That night we talked till late night &share our stories with each other and that night the bonding of the bajarang dall got stronger.

22nd MAY we woke up at 4 AM and we depart from Pathankot to Manali on the bullet. We had some photographs, some videos and ya lots of fun. Finally, by facing so many difficulties we reached to our campsite in Manali around 4:30 PM.

As soon as we reached Manali our training got started. First, we were trained to climb on one artificial wall and then we went for Acclimatization walk. After finishing all that we had one meeting with RUSHI BHAI & SAGAR BHAI(one of the most senior and a project advisor of INVINCIBLE_NGO) in which we got some special tips for this expedition and some duties were alloted to us. After that meeting, we took our dinner & went to our tents for rest.

“BEFORE THE EXPEDITION IT’S NECESSARY TO BE PREPARED FOR THE UPCOMING DIFFICULTIES AND NIGHT HOLD AT BRIGU LAKE IS THE PERFECT PLACE WERE WE COULD FIND OUT THAT TYPE OF DIFFICULTIES.”

So that on 23rd of the MAY we woke up, took our breakfast, just leave the extra luggage behind in our tents and we were on our way to the RAOLI KHOLI, which is known as the ABC(Advance Base Camp) for bhrigu lake. from our campsite we headed towards THE GULABA CHECK-POST, then we started our trek towards raoli kholi, we reached our campsite of raoli kholi by end of the evening.

Truly that trek from gulaba to raoli kholi was the hardest trek of my life. After that, we took some rest and then that “MILK WITH KHAJUR” That is the bestest milk we ever had, which was made by rushi bhai. After drinking that milk we all had some stamina to stand up and walk until that we feel like a machine without power & a car without fuel.

The atmosphere was to chill so that we took our dinner as fast as we can, then we just went to our tent and zip-up the gate of it. We all wanted to get a good sleep but Rushi bhai has already warned us that “you can enter your tents but no one will fall a sleep till 9:00 PM because if you will fall a sleep before the time then you will get ill tomorrow”. We were waiting for the clock to hit 9 with our eyes full of dreams and when it hit the 9 we feel like we won some kind of war. Finally, we went to sleep.

On the day of 24th MAY after breakfast & packing our lunch we all started our trek towards the bhrigu lake.this was completely a snow trekking for which we go along there.there is only little trail was there for walk , which was made by a man who walked just before me. At the end of the half trek, we took our lunch between the pure & white snow. After that, we started our trek again and now our destiny was just in front of us we got closer, closer to the bhrigu lake. We all were completely tired and exhausted. We all looking for bhrigu lake, we were waiting to reach and than finally it came.

Bhrigu lake was just in front of our eyes and we all cheering up each other. It’s around 4 PM, now we were waiting for other groups to leave that place. after they left we pitched our tents beside bhrigu lack.

For acclimitisation, we climbed a ridge surrounding the bhrigu lack. RUSHI BHAI has taught us one lesson that “ALWAYS CLIMB HIGH AND SLEEP LOW”.

Next day on 25th MAY we descended to raolikholi to collect our luggage we had dumped over there and then continue towards Manali base camp.

26th & 27th may were rest day for us.we enjoyed a lot that two days and we spent unforgettable moments.

On the early morning of 28th MAY, we departed for DHUNDHI.that was the opening move towards our target.

We decided to spend that night in DHUNDHI. on that day we met our guide for the first time and we learned our first lesson that “MOUNTAIN IS LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND, SO TREAT IT LIKE YOUR GIRLFRIEND” most remarkable words said by our guide SURESH RAINA SIR.

On 29th MAY we left for ABC(Advanced Base Camp). The terrain was quite stiff and rough. All the way we felt like about to reach but we didn’t. Finally, we reached LADYLEG our ABC.

We had pitched our tents and accommodation after taking our lunch. after some rest, we had done our LOAD FERRY to the summit camp.

On 30th MAY after packing our all items of luggage we started our journey towards our target.it was not easy for us to climb with this all luggage but the glorious peak was waiting for us.when it was few moments before our summit camp I was completely lost and I thought it was the end of my journey but then a miracle happens and finally, we all are at our summit camp. we pitched our tents, take our packed lunch around 4 PM.after that we went for rest because we decided to start our climb at midnight.

On 31st MAY around 1AM, we started our climb for summit.we left our extra luggage at summit camp. after moving further we were tied to each other by rope.the temperature was around -12°C.after that all rest that we took, all hard pushes that we have done and all that clife climb that we had done, finally we reached our destination or target or dream or whatever we said.

At the end we summited it and that view from the top of that peak was really worth for that climb that we had done. after that, we took some pictures with TRICOLOUR and with the flag of INVINCIBLE.then after took some rest we are on our way back to summit camp and then towards the ABC.we spent our one more night at LADYLEG.that smile on our faces that charm, we enjoyed our success party and had fun a lot that night.

On 1st June we started our journey towards the Manali base camp. we had some great moments on that way and at the end of that day, we reached Manali base camp.

We had DJ NIGHT and CELEBRATION PARTY over there.on that night we departed for Pathankot.

On 2nd JUNE we arrived at Pathankot around 11AM.we took our train and we are on the way of AHMEDABAD.

On 3rd JUNE we arrived at Ahmedabad and finally, our journey ends there.

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