The trek to Gaumukh in Gangotri National Park was reopened for the public on Tuesday after being kept closed to visitors for four days due to inclement weather.
The Park officials say that necessary measures are being taken to ensure that the number of visitors to Gaumukh does not exceed the limit of 150 people a day and to check that the visitors do not leave any waste in this ecologically sensitive area.With Kanwadias arriving in Uttarakhand to collect water from the Ganga during the ongoing Shravan, many of the devotees travel to Gaumukh.However, during the last four days, the Kanwadias and other visitors were returning back after collecting water from the Bhagirathi in Gangotri.
According to the Tehri Dam-I divisional forest officer Shrawan Kumar who is handling the additional charge of the Gangotri National Park deputy director, the trek to Gaumukh had been kept closed to the public for four days due to inclement weather increasing the risk to trekkers passing through precarious routes to Gaumukh.