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Anything that happens for the first time, is briefly scary. Because it's new. You haven't tried it ever before. So, when I set my foot in the Govind National Sanctuary of Uttarakhand in India, I was anxious. But as the old adage goes - every great journey begins with two feet. The trek happens to be one of the toughest and the most wonderful journeys I have undertaken.
Nothing changed. And everything changed within me.