During the trek to Auden's col, one of our team members had a book by name Full Tilt, written by Dervla Murphy. It was about a lady who toured few continents on a bicycle.
It was about her bicycle tour through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan and India during the 1960's. It was like a dream reading about this trip of her's. Lots of stuffs about different places were written. Though I could not read beyond 25% of the book, I could still recollect about the places which she went through.
Then on a particular day during Auden's Col trek we were stuck at Auden's col base camp as one of our porters had gone back to drop one of our team member who was suffering from sickness and one more porter also returned owing to bad health and bad weather. So were kind of using up our buffer day while waiting for them to come back.
During that day, we spoke to one of our team member from Germany. So we asked him since how long he has been coming to India. Surprisingly his first visit to India was during 1974, years before we were actually born and I could not believe the way he reached India. He was telling about the route which I had read in the book few days before through these continents. Only difference was he was either on a bus / train or by car. He had traveled through these continents in fact before making it to Kashmir.
Its such an co-incidence, you are reading about a person's experience about travelling across continents and reaching India and all of a sudden the German guy appears and tells us about his story with utmost humility which resembles the one you have read before!
It was a strange co-incidence at 18,000 feet I thought.
Cheers,
It was about her bicycle tour through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan and India during the 1960's. It was like a dream reading about this trip of her's. Lots of stuffs about different places were written. Though I could not read beyond 25% of the book, I could still recollect about the places which she went through.
Then on a particular day during Auden's Col trek we were stuck at Auden's col base camp as one of our porters had gone back to drop one of our team member who was suffering from sickness and one more porter also returned owing to bad health and bad weather. So were kind of using up our buffer day while waiting for them to come back.
During that day, we spoke to one of our team member from Germany. So we asked him since how long he has been coming to India. Surprisingly his first visit to India was during 1974, years before we were actually born and I could not believe the way he reached India. He was telling about the route which I had read in the book few days before through these continents. Only difference was he was either on a bus / train or by car. He had traveled through these continents in fact before making it to Kashmir.
Its such an co-incidence, you are reading about a person's experience about travelling across continents and reaching India and all of a sudden the German guy appears and tells us about his story with utmost humility which resembles the one you have read before!
It was a strange co-incidence at 18,000 feet I thought.
Cheers,
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