My first ever trekking trip to Kedarkantha trek❤

We started the journey from New Delhi. We took a bus from delhi to dehradun,it was an overnight   travel.We reached at around 7am to dehradun bus stand.From dehradun we had to reach sankri to start our trek, We had booked our trek with a trekking group named Himalayan hikers. The Himalayan hikers vehicle was waiting for us in dehradun to receive us. We contacted the concerned person and he guided us to the vehicle. Now we started our journey from dehradun to sankri which is around 186km. We crossed mussoorie that was like heaven.All over clouds and it felt like we are moving on the clouds.We were crossing the roads in between the mountains and it was very exciting. Due to the criss cross roads I felt nausea and vomiting but it was fine after sometime. Finally we reached sankri after around 6hrs at around 4pm in the evening. It was soo cold in that place and we were shivering inspite of wearing jackets, gloves and cap.We reached our hotel ,named hotel swargrohini.Our trekking leader did our briefing about what all should be followed during trek,the do's and dont's,what all should be carried and etc. After the briefing was over we had our dinner and slept early as we were too tired and we had to wake up early the next morning.

20th dec 2019.
We woke early mrng got fresh and up and were now ready to start the trek.Today we had to reach JUDA KA TALAB from sankri which at around 9100ft above the sea level from sankri.We had our breakfast and started our trek with our trekking guide Kamlesh ji at 9.30am. We were so excited that firstly it was fun while climbing but as the height started increasing we were feeling difficulty in breathing due to low oxygen level.During climbing we saw apple gardens though they were no apples but trees were present that was covered with snow.As we were heading forward our legs were given up but our will to go forward was strong.Finally we reached JUDA KA TALAB at around 2pm by the lunch time.Our tents were ready for our stay at juda ka talab. The temperature was -8°c .We had our lunch and did some photography near the juda lake.By the evening there was sudden change in the weather and there was snowfall.It was so cold that we have to prepare a bon fire to make yourself warm. After all this it was around 7pm and the dinner was ready.We had our dinner and went to sleep inside our tents. My friend was having severe sprain in his leg and was very much disturbed due to the pain,somehow by using volini spray we managed to provide relief to him .We slept in sleeping bags ,it was a first time experience 😀

21st dec- Base camp.
The next morning we woke up and saw our tents were covered with snow as whole night there was heavy snowfall. It was an immensely beautiful view.We had our breakfast and then we started to head towards the BASE CAMP.Base camp is at an altitude of 3,430m and around 4km from juda ka talab.This was a short distance to cover. We started at 10am and reached base camp by 1.30pm. It was soo beautiful as there was much more snow here than juda ka talab.We had our hot lunch as we were very hungry.Suddenly snowfall started at the basecamp,we played a lot in the snow as it was soo amazing. But as the time passed we started feeling very cold and we went inside our tents.By the evening the snowfall was over and the cold was much more than before as it was -13°c.Due to the clear weather at night the sky was glittering with stars, looking as if we are inside the milky way.We again sat near the bon fire did some chit chat until the dinner was ready.Today we had our dinner early as nxt day we have to head towards the summit at 2am in night.It was soo cold that despite of having two sleeping bags with all our jackets ,socks ,cap we all were shivering.None of us was able to sleep due to  cold.

22dec 2019-Summit
We all woke up at 1.30am midnight as we had to moved towards summit by 2.30am.We took our stuff like trekking pole,waterbottle and etc.The kedarkantha peak is at height of 12,500ft.We started to climb from the basecamp.As it was night we used our torch for visibility.We were heading slowly because the route was at the edges and due to heavy snowfall last night thick layers of snow was present on the track.At one point our whole legs was completely inside snow.Somehow kamlesh ji helped us to move forward.We had to reach the summit by sunrise as sunrise is the speciality of kedarkantha peak.Once we reached the summit I removed my gloves and took my phone out to click pictures, it felt as if someone has cut my hands,me and my hands both were shivering.We finally reached the summit and completed our trek.Then we came back to base camp ,had our lunch and moved back towards sankri.We reached sankri by evening ,we were soo tired that we had our dinner and went to sleep.

23rd dec 2019-end of trek
In the morning we went back to dehradun and then further delhi.This was one of the most memorable , adventurous and exciting trip.It was one of the most amazing experience ever.