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WALK ON THE BARA
SHIGRI GLACIER IN
THE SHADOW OF
ROBERT PETTIGREW
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s with most of the Indian Himalaya Maps
there are always historical notes and
trekking ideas on the reverse side. The
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and most accessible Himalayan-Alpine
regions in the Indian Himalaya. During a visit to the
Kullu region a couple of years ago and just out of interest,
I gave the information on my map a quick ‘scan’ and
my eyes were immediately drawn to a familiar name
and old friend from the mid-1960s – Robert Pettigrew.
I was involved in a guide training program based in
the Bara Shigri Glacier basin, an interesting and heavily
glaciated region, an area that I had visited several times
before and one that I knew had a history of British
exploration going back many decades. Due to various
logistical problems my journey was one consisting mainly
of catch up with the main team.
The true left wall on the Bara Shigri Glacier forms the
watershed and great divide between Kullu-Lahul-Spiti
and is the long ridge that keeps the monsoon precipitation
to the west while to the east the mountains remain&=-%2;%00