Archive for February, 2010

Kanchenjunga Expedition- The preparations/ Delhi/ Siliguri/ Darjeeling .

Kanchenjunga Expedition- The preparations/ Delhi/ Siliguri/ Darjeeling .

Today listening to the grim stories of life at Base camp from Col Vijay, the Principal of Darjeeling Mountaineering Institute and Col Upadhaya I am a bit intimidated. They were discussing the ordeal of shitting on those heights. One has to shit in drums dug out into the ground by turns and wait for the sherpas to clear the cesspits. The shit they told me is a valued commodity to them (I don’t know why yet). For the campers shitting is never easy.