He said, "It was an adventure I will not soon forget."
This year, our team will deliver 380 beds to one remote village in the Himalayas. Murray's trip required twenty-six porters who carried the beds up into the mountains two weeks before Murray and his group arrived. The beds for the Spiti Valley distribution were delivered by truck early in June -- just after the roads re-opened for the summer -- to the remote village of Rangrik where the Munsel-Ling school is situated.
We will not be arriving there until the middle of next week since the village is at an altitude of more than three thousand metres and we stop for two days in the village of Manali (at eighteen hundred metres) in order to acclimatize our bodies to the altitude.
From Murray's report of his trip:
We had three porters, a guide, and a cook and we stopped for five minutes every thirty minutes. The cook was anxious to ply me with tea.At least we don't have to walk.
After sailing along for four hours, word came to halt for light refreshments. I was to know later that this was the notice of a formidable "enemy" lying ahead. At 16:30 we were given the order to "attack." It was up, up, up on narrow and slippery trails, and it was getting darker. Earlier, our trip routing had been changed from a 3-hour to a 6-hour objective. I sensed that the game was to kill me off early. My confidence was indeed gradually being shot down -- I was even thinking of the possibility of an air lift! The thought of nine more days of this torture almost made me sick.
The Spiti Valley Three
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