May 29th: Base Camp, Kasol
Same exercise routine in the morning as the previous day and after that we were taken for a rock climbing and rappelling lesson. The scene of this activity was a near vertical structure of about 30 feet with only a few small, tough footholds.
Took me forever to get my chance because it had to be done one person at a time. Was very tough and it made me learn a few things about (rock) climbing - it's the most important thing to be able to life your own weight, every step must be a careful one, sudden movements are bad, etc.. Really need to get good at this. Once everyone finished their rock climbing, we went back to the base camp for lunch and we returned to the same place for the rappelling part. Since we were short on time, people who hadn't rappelled before and who hadn't finished the morning's activity were given the chance first and since I had done it once before, I decided to give it a miss. Packed my rucksack for the higher camps. Mine was definitely one of the heaviest because I had was carrying a binoculars and extra clothes. Everything was ready now. Excitement building up. I just had one worry - open-air-crapping! Seriously. Oh, I forgot to mention. Guddu (one of the 5 from Akola) fell sick meanwhile and decided to head back home the same day that we were to leave for the higher camps. Poor guy. We would have had much more fun I'm sure if he had also come along. We weren't spared even on the day before we were leaving base camp and had to take an hour of that lame camp fire shit again. Went to sleep totally looking forward to the real stuff that was about to start the next day.
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