Pride Comes Before a Fall : Harishchandragadh 2006
26 January 2006. It was exactly 5 years since my first entry into Canada as a Landed Immigrant - see my blog post at http://taccidentalimmigrant.blogspot.com/2012/07/welcome-to-canada.html . If I was superstitious, perhaps I should have been a little more cautious. But being gifted with a reckless nonchalance I did not even think about it. I had other things on my mind. The night was cool, there was hardly any light to go by, and the descent to the col of Tolar khind on Harishchandragadh needed all my attention. Following close on my heels was S.R.Vasudevan, an old colleague from Air India and Ravi Wadaskar with whom I had shared two great mountain adventures in Kinnaur ( see : http://taccidental.blogspot.ca/2014/02/the-chango-chronicles-1998-third-time.html )and Ladakh . Earlier in the afternoon we had parked the old Mahindra jeep in the village of Khireshwar at the base of Harishchandragadh. We had then hiked up to the summit of the fort with only one stop along the ...