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Adventure Mania 2013

The year 2013, for us at Adventure Mania were very special. Like every year for the past 12 years we spent many months in the mountains of the Indian Himalaya.  Our journey this year started with a lightweight, semi-alpine style attempt on the forbidding Nanda Devi East (7434m). The report of our trip to NDE can be found here:  http://nanda-devi-east.blogspot.in/ our Advance Base Camp on Nanda Devi East Expedition Alok Das on the south ridge of Nanda Devi East, May 2013 After Nanda Devi, Adventure Mania team drove to Joshimath in June to provide a professionally serviced expedition to Trisul West face. Unfortunately, we were trapped in our camp II on the Ronti glacier as the infamous cloudburst and subsequent flooding of Uttarakhand happened. Our gear and food were all buried under fresh powder and our proposed route went totally beyond safe conditions. Reluctantly, we had to abandon this attempt. Gear-less and out of food,the two Adventure Mania guides, Thendup Sherpa