The Adventure Sports Wing of SAIL Units Sports Club (SUSC) of SAIL employees today began their trekking expedition to the Buran Ghati Pass in Uttarakhand. The will trek the Pass, situated at 16000 ft in Himachal Himalaya from October 3 to 14.
Buran Ghati Pass stands in Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, as one of the toughest connecting routes of Himalayas. It is a direct route from Pabbar valley (Shimla district) into Sangla valley (Kinnaur District) of Himachal Pradesh. There are three glaciers for trekkers and nature lovers.
Covering the entire stretch of over 90 km on foot, they have to negotiate multiple obstacles viz. steep climbs, steep descends on boulder, razor sharp ridges and frothy riverbeds, snow patches and ice climbs, descends. Solitude from civilisation for over 7 days and caring everything needed for survival on backpacks, is another daunting challenge the expeditionary has to face. The trekking expedition for this year will start from Junglik at Shimla district while crossing “Dayara Thatch to Litham to Chandranahan Lake to Dhunda to Buran Pass (16000 ft) to River Side to Brua Village to Karchcham” in between.
Under the leadership of , Dr. Golap Md. Chowdhury, Senior Manager, RDCIS, SAIL along with another seven employees namely, Hare Krishna Mahto, Aurobindo Mondal, Sudip Acharyya, Neeraj, Trilok Joshi, Rahul Mishra & Sushanta Das have been selected to scale this pass. Perfect combination of maturity and young, experience and energy define the team’s endeavour to rise above the mountain.
Sending off ceremony took place in front of Ispat Bhawan, RDCIS, Ranchi on Wednesday in presence of Kajal Das, ED, CET and S K Das, GM I/c, RDCIS and whole bunch of colleagues and well-wishers. In their addresses, K Das and S K Das highlighted SAIL’s promise for sports promotions and gestured the team with “All the Best”.