if something happened to me best place to pop off, and the glaciers at that height and on to Hemkund sahib just gorgeous, SHQ and I are still mountain goats) and of course beyond to the border with Tibet. The tunnel will be built between Devaprayag and Lachmoli. For those who have not been there, Devaprayag is where the Ganga actually starts, it is where Bhagirathi flowing from Gangotri---> Uttarkashi meets the Alakananda that flows Badrinath---> Karnaprayag---> Rudraprayag--> Srinagar. At Rudraprayag the Alakananda joins the slower flowing Mandakini that starts from Kedarnath at the glacier behind the temple. You can even straddle the Mandakini as she flows out of the glacier at Kedarnath. Alakananda is really swift flowing and you have to hang on to chains at the Badrinath temple if you want to take a dip and only the strong of will can do it. But do it and also take dips in the Gangotri glacier you can even test if your heart stops. Here are pics of the tunnel work:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7aIGqZUEAA6B3Q.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4xBz84XsAQBorh.jpg
https://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun ... y3aAN.html
PS: My best memory is of Navratri day Oct 2015 having just hiked down from Kedarnath, with the peculiar buzz as if being in a plane whole day and standing at the Rudraprayag temple, where Mandakini joins the Alakananda two swift flowing rivers. Rudraprayag is where Shiva as Rudra gave Narada the science of music and also the Rudra veena(an instrument where fewer and fewer people are around proficient in) on the Narada rock next to the temple. The rock cracked in two after the floods and half of it vanished, people do not maintain sanctity anymore, found cigarette butts, etc on the rock still, all these honeymoon types come there and do weekend expeditions and hiking, biking types forgetting it is a place of contemplation too with a history. There is some legend of Monsieur Ravana using his entrails as strings to play the Rudra veena to please Shiva. Anyhow catgut was used in violin strings so possible that Senor R. did it, who knows?
But anyhow that is why if you hike Mana Pass etc you evade hiking, biking weekend warriors from Delhi, Jhumri Tilaiya and so on. There nobody bothers you and the snow leopard is the only one watching you.
