The Women’s Expedition to Gokyo Everest Grand Circle led by Bachendri Pal , chief adventure programme, Tata Steel, was successfully completed when all six members of the expedition reached Everest Base Camp via Gokyo RI.
The team comprising Premlata Agrawal, Swarnalata Darai from Odisha, Shanti Hembrum from Noamundi, Poonam Rana from Uttarakhand, V Saraswati from Border Security Force Delhi and Amla Rawat from Dehradun are part of the mission.
Bachendri Pal with years of leading behind her, coached the members during the journey on various matters of expeditioning. From eating food (for providing calories/energy) to drinking fluids to maintain the physiological changes in the internal body systems to high altitude travel taking all precautions including the protection of eyes from the deadly ultra violet rays.
Sharing her experiences Pal says, “Every day I used to share my experiences and teach the team members why people climb mountains. What is the learning from itIJ It’s a journey of workshops where every day is different with new tasks. Two girls (Saraswati and Shanti) were in the mountains for first time. I used to share with them about psycology in high altitude, high altitude sickness, Ultra violet rays and its effects on eyes and skin”.