Brahmatal & Khamila Top @ -15 Deg Celcius

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Photo of Brahmatal & Khamila Top @ -15 Deg Celcius by Gourab Mukherjee

Brahmatal is a holy lake at Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand state at a distance of approx 300 kms from Haridwar. It is situated at an altitude of 12,250 ft above sea level.

Khamila Top is a summit at approx 900 ft above Brahmatal Lake, from there one can have obstacle free mesmerizing 180 deg view of big Himalyan ranges at a stretch.

We were so much lucky to experience this trek up to Khamila top in chilling cold and sleeping in a tent placed on Ice on January 2019.

Lohajung, The base camp from where we started our trek.

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Lohajung.

Never thought of getting so much fresh snow even on the first day of the trek.

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Stepping over snow on day 1 itself.

When happiness blew our mind

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Happy to capture her happiness.

Layer of Snow was getting thicker as we were approaching forward

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Milky white snow

Hello Pretty Ladies !!

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Frozen Bekhal Tal during during sunset.

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Bekhal Tal

Sunset from the day 1 campsite

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Mesmerizing sunset.

Snow covered Himalayan ranges from Jhandi Top.

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Mt. Trishul & Mt. Choukhamba

No Traffic , no signals, no crowd, only snow covered peaks

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Even being miniature, the whole group love to stand in front of those mountains just to have a snap.

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The Gang !!

Frozen Brahmatal, the campsite for day 2.

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Brahma Tal.

Mt. Nanda Ghunti is a 6,309-metre-high (20,699 ft) mountain in Garhwal, India

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Mt. Nanda Ghunti.

Me enjoying 180 deg view of snow covered mountain ranges and no obstacles in between.

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Mt. Nanda Ghunti, Mt. Trishul, Mt. Choukhamba, Mt. Nilkantha , etc.

She was overwhelmed posing in front of those ranges.

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Mt. Nanda Ghunti, Mt. Trishul, Mt. Choukhamba, Mt. Nilkantha , etc.

We along with our trek guide Maipat Ji & Pradyuman ji at Khamila top at an altitude of 13,120 ft.

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Khamila Top (13,120 ft).

Queens at their palace

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Campsite.

A pretty temple

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