13/04/2025
Here is the continuity of the story
After clicking tons of photos, video & wasting time, when we reach the camp site which we thought to be ours. Another trek leader who was with Anshul was there & he informed us that - 'this is not our camp site, our camp site is just 300m ahead, you three go ahead I will catch you up' & he went downhill & disappeared..
It was around 3pm we were climbing from last 4hours, we only had breakfast no lunch (because we started late and lunch was supposed to be at the camp site) and we had no water left.. and what we thought to be our camp site was not our camp site..
As we were told Juda ka Talab was just 300 meters, 300 meters of walking takes 3-5min and if you walk really slow it will hardly take 10-15min, that's common understanding but..
As we started walking... We walked... & Walked but there was no sign of any campsite.. it was almost half an hour camp site we just left was no longer visible, there was no one around us in the middle of the Jungle with snowfall & we were hungry with no water & in freezing cold...
We were about to lose hope and give up by thinking there is no meaning going ahead we might have lost the trail as it's 30min and we have walked more than kilometre, our camp was just 300mts ahead and we can't see any signs of people or camp. And at that time we heard some chatter ahead we found 4 lost trekkers from another group. Finding them was relieving, Now we were not alone & hopefully we weren't lost. As we talked to them we came to know they had one local with them & we were on the right track, Leader lied to us about Juda ka Talab being 300mts ahead, just to encourage us to walk.. With them we reached Juda ka Talab around 4pm...
I will continue the story in the 3rd post ✌️