Narkanda-Hatu: The Road I Must
18 December 2015 I was unemployed for 6 months now. had no clue where I was going and out of whim, i decided to ride to Narkanda. it is a town 65 km from Shimla at an altitude of 2708 meters on the Hindustan-Tibet Road (NH 22) in Himachal Pradesh. so I made few phone calls to check if the road was open and got a green signal from everywhere. so me and my brother on my bike and 2 of my friends on a separate bike headed towards Shimla. kufri solan It was a beautiful morning. Bright and sunny. we rode real fast and reached Shimla in 2 hrs 45 mins. took a halt and headed towards Narkanda. At Kufri, things turned real bad. we were novice riders and didn't notice the layer of ice on the road. we slipped while climbing a slope. now this fall wasn't that bad as we were slow. we decided to head back to Shimla, park our bikes there and hire a cab. while returning back and taking a sharp turn my bike slipped on black ice. it was a terrible fall. m...