Stories behind the lens — Jump!
This picture came into existence shortly after the first of our ‘many picnics’ that will follow.
One of us, Vicky, was very considerate to wake up at 4 in the morning to prepare three-box fulls of Lemon Rice. It was essentially him and his food that kept us going.
These so-called picnics, which were sometimes purposed to get the tension off our muscles, sometimes to quench the popping hunger, other times to wait for the people coming behind or to savor the view — these were the parts where we bonded the most. Rajat also came up with lines like “We are basically here for picnics, we are taking short hike breaks in between!”. Super fun!
Almost an hour before this click, we were there taking off our shoes and socks to cross a rocky river with freezing cold water. “I didn’t sign up for this!” came in mind at first when the bare feet touched the water, and it didn’t get any better. But that was fun and realizing that we won’t get to do this after that day, Vicky, Rohan, and I decided to go into the water again (Arushi and Achyut were super brave, they were in water which was knees level deep 😲). Vicky had told me, “It will pain. Learn to feel the pain”, but soon realized that was enough pain for the day and we headed back to wearing our shoes.
We now after successfully coming out of the unwilling detour and refueling ourselves with ample food and also chasing the packet of lays which might be found by someone sometime in France, had to march ahead to finally start the hike which we were there for.
For the rest of the stories, please check Stories behind the lens — the seven sisters cliff
