Its 2:40 noon There were around a total of 3 land slides on the route to Joshimath; two land slides have already been cleared. The team has only reached Deoprayag (hardly 1/4th the total distace towards Joshimath). The drivers informed us that we would not be able to make it till Joshimat as we have lost lot of time and we should change our goalpost to Karmaprayag where we should be able to reach by sun down.
Dino informed me that they can see huge rocks overhanging the highway at lot of places which looked scary. There were also lot of JCBs moving around to clear the road blocks; the 3rd and last road slide is expected to be cleared by 3:40 noon. The decision was taken to halt at Karmaprayag. That is after Devgarh and Rudraprayag (I had read this name in the "Jim Corbetts" - Book "The man eaters of India"). From Karnaprayag to Joshimath then to Govindghat may be around 4 hours. So Team Nature Knights will have to start early around
4:30 / 5 am on August 14, 2007
Proposed plan to start from Karnaprayag for Govindghat.The trek from Govindghat to Gangaria has to be planned to be done in a very tight schedule as already the team would have lost lot of day light. Probably consider tattu (Mules) and / or pitthu (Loaders) to make the load light and progress faster. 7:25 pm. August 13, 2007. Just got news that our team has reached that out team has reached Karnaprayag safely. The weather is very pleasant around 15 to 18 degree centigrade.
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