TiGER HilL:The Darjeeling treK

Tripoto
8th Apr 2019
Photo of TiGER HilL:The Darjeeling treK by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Day 1

Our tiger hill trek was actually a acclimatization trek in our Advance Mountaineering Course from HMI(darjeeling)
We started in the morning at 6am from HMI Institute campus trekked for almost 1.5hours we took a break in a market on the way to purchase some rainwears because of rains and some food items then we again trekked for almost 1hr and reached the tiger hill which gives you a beautiful view of kunchanjunga mountain if weather allows but we weren't that much lucky that day but we got to see beautiful view of some mountain ranges we stayed there we visited a temple there at the top ate some prasads we discussed about our expedition planning with our instructors which was our task at the end of the course to submit one expedition planning file with each details then we had tea and snacks and we started our journey back to hmi around 11pm and we reached back to HMI around 2pm we had our lunch with batchmates and continued our day in our domes with further schedule

On the way to tiger hill with rucksack around 15-20kg each

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Me Enjoying the view

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Our team relaxing on the way to tiger hill

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

My shoes

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Nature

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

View

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

View of mountain range in the back from our Institute HMi early morning

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Our team when we reached the tiger hill top

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Dogs who trekked with us from the Institute to the top of the hill

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Our rucksacks

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

Team during trekking down the hill

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)

We called them Alti (high altitude dogs)

Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)
Photo of Tiger Hill Sunrise Observatory, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India by Pankaj Verma (kAGE OF NATURE)