Story of horses: Hulks of mountains who carry 100kg weight on their backs

Today's post is related to Solang Valley and I completed this trip in October last year. During this trip, while roaming in Solang Valley, when I was returning from Beas Lake, I have brought to you the details of what I saw. From Solang, I reached Dhundi by car and from there on foot.

Walking on foot from Dhundi, I reached Beas Lake from where climbing up, I reached Lady Leg Base Camp which is the base camp of Friendship Peak. And today's story begins from here. At the base camp, a team whose Friendship Peak expedition failed due to bad weather, so all the climbers started descending. Everyone's big bags, tents, sleeping bags and heavy kitchen items will go down on horses.

At an altitude of 3800 meters, which is about 300 meters from the tree line, the air here is thin and there is also problem in breathing, while the horses have carried about 80 kg weight on their backs. The owner of the horses says that this is the daily work of the horses. Today I will feed them gram after reaching down. I was happy that the owner of the horses takes care of his animals.

The road to Solang valley is downhill, there are big stones on the way and we have to cross the Beas river but all the horses carried all the goods to Solang valley by performing their duty with full honesty. I don't know what the horses must be thinking in their minds? But if I think from my mind then all the horses must be thinking that don't make us lift the weight, let us graze grass in the forest, we don't need anything else.

If I talk about running away then horses can run away but they don't run away because humans started using horses for work from 4000 BC and by around 3000 BC horse rearing had spread to almost every corner of the world. So the relationship between both of us is very old. Perhaps we have been walking together since the foundation of the world was laid.

On my way back I saw some shepherds sitting with their sheep and goats. Both of them were sitting in the lap of a distant mountain smoking a bidi and talking seriously on some topic. I understand that their topic is serious. These people always talk about their animals and the wild animals that attack their sheep and goats every day. They have a fight every day in which sometimes their animal is killed and sometimes these people save their goat from the jaws of man-eaters.

This is my entry for #monomad challenge.

Disclaimer: This post is originally written in Hindi and I have used Google Translator to translate the Hindi text in English. All the photos have been clicked by me from canon 77d and edited in lightroom. Post collage created in adobe photoshop.