50 plus all-women team covers last leg of Himalayan expedition
After three-month long rigorous trekking including a one-month journey in Nepal, the 50-plus all Women Trans Himalayan expedition team is back on Indian soil to complete the third and final stretch of their mission.
Spending a whole month in Nepal, the team is looking forward to the third and final stretch of the expedition in the Indian subcontinent, a release fronm Tata Steel, the sponsor, said on Tuesday. This journey began on March 12, 2022 at Pang-sau Pass in the India-Myanmar border as a group of 12 women in the age group of 50-68 years under the leadership of Bachendri Pal, embarked on a 5-month long journey of traversing 4,977-km across the Himalayan extreme from Arunachal Pradesh in the East to Ladakh in the West.
The team had covered 650-km across four states –Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Upper West Bengal and Sikkim– while they travelled for more than 1500-km in the western, central and eastern Nepal.
At an elevation of 3,727ft, Pangsau Pass marked the beginning of the expedition. Situated in the Patkai Hills on the India-Myanmar border, this pass offers one of the easiest routes into Burma from the Assam plains, it said.
Breaking the ‘I am too old for this’ barrier, the team walked an average of 25-km every day in the initial phase of the expedition, gradually increasing the distance over time. This was the acclimatization phase where the participating women along with the support staff tuned their bodies to the mountain conditions.
The team had covered 650 km across four states and 1,500 km in the western, central and eastern Nepal