Status as on August 16 morning.

There has been no news from Team Nature Knights after they reached Joshimath..were waiting to start from Joshimath on August 14, 2007. Probably there is no signal and also no facility at Ghangaria to call back.

There was a clould burst and few land slides in Himachal Pradesh the neighbouring state to Uttaranchal.

The planned schedule was as follows for next 4 days.

August 14 - Govindghat - Ghangari (13 km time 4 to 5 hours) level moderate
August 15 - Ghangaria - Bhyundar Valley - Ghangaria (8 km Time 7 to 8 hours) Easy
August 16 - Ghangari - Hemkund - Ghangari (6 km each way; time 4 hours each way)
August 17 - Ghangaria - Govindghat (13 km, time 4 - 5 hrs) Moderate

Altitudes

Govind Ghat - 1828 m
Ghangari - 3050 m
Bhyundar Valley - 3858 m
Hemkund - 4329 m

Waiting to hear back from our team.