...A deadly (click here) dust storm claimed 121 lives in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Punjab, while an electric storm, in which lightning struck an estimate 40,000 times, left 21 people dead in the country’s south....
To understand how strange this is, Nothern India is the location of Himalayas. Uttarakhand is home of The UNESCO World Heritage site, Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks.
...Criterion (vii): (click here) The Nanda Devi National Park is renowned for its remote mountain wilderness, dominated by India's second highest mountain at 7,817 m and protected on all sides by spectacular topographical features including glaciers, moraines, and alpine meadows. This spectacular landscape is complemented by the Valley of Flowers, an outstandingly beautiful high-altitude Himalayan valley. Its ‘gentle’ landscape, breath-taking beautiful meadows of alpine flowers and ease of access has been acknowledged by renowned explorers, mountaineers and botanists in literature for over a century and in Hindu mythology for much longer....
Nanda Devi the highest peak in India that is contained entirely within it's borders. It is the 23rd highest peak in the world. To realize all this disastrous weather is occurring in this region of India is an astonishing reality....Morning (click here) after yoga ,meditation and breakfast we proceed for the trek , 180 degree grand Himalayan panorama accompanies us through out this beautiful trek to Kuari Pass....
