Having tackled the treacherous bend, we were faced with another massive
rock slide with a menacing slope. It was
demoralising just to look at this climb, and it required much persuasion
from the porters and Rana bhai to keep us moving. Reaching the top of the
rock slide visible in this picture we realised that there was an approximately
equal height still remaining to be climbed but it was invisible from the
bottom of the climb since it had a gentler slope than the first part. This
was the absolute letdown for all of us, and Balu put up a brilliant act
of crying and throwing a tantrum, but Harshad suspect to the day that there
was more reality in that act than histrionics.
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