EAGLE HEIGHT TREKKER'S MCLEODGANJ TREKKING HIMACHAL

Trekking Photographs

Pongdam Lake

For Sheer geographical diversity, few places in the world are richly endowed as Himachal Pradesh. Low rolling hills, just a couple of hundred meters above sea level, climb on to touch the core of the Himalaya Mountains. Here lie peaks that are several thousand metres high –and never lose their perennial Snows. Then, past these forbidding heights, lie the visually stunning cold deserts of the Trans Himalaya. Rivers in deep gorges and placid mountain lakes, thick forests and acres of screen, mountainsides draped with snow, and green Alpine meadows, all form a part of this immense spectrum. And the possibilities for a whole range of adventure activities is also enormous.

There are day-hikes by the thousand, and the trek routes follow trails that last a couple of days or can extend over a few weeks. These vary from gentle walks over easy terrain, to grueling expeditions. There is skii helisking an ice-skating.There is the thrill of paragliding and the test of stamina with mountain-cycling. You can go camping and fishing and play golf -or take a safari by car, jeep or on motorcycle. Then there is mountaineering and rock climbing.All you have to do is make up your mind and select your own activity. No special training is required for most things, age is no consideration and all you need is a reasonable level of fitness. Equipment, training and instructors and then, all this comes at a fraction of what it would cost elsewhere in the world.