It was cool a night in September 2018 and we were about to sleep in the university hostel, my friend presented an idea of a one-day hiking trip to Miranjani hills in Pakistan. Despite my busy schedule, I couldn’t deny as I am already passionate about trekking.
In the morning, at 5:30am we left the campus and procured the destination after two hours of excited traveling. Miranjani hills were notorious for remote location along with wild animals. Its peak was at a height of 9816ft from sea level. We expected a great contest regarding these troubles being excited and enthusiastic. We were on the verge of start, a local guide appeared, suddenly. He instructed us about the difficulty level, multiple treks blending issues and offered his services but we were supposed to unlock the achievement by ourselves.
The journey started. Lovely weather promoting passion, cold wind supporting strength and lush greenery relaxing eyes were the charms. Moving further, we passed by a group of monkeys and realized the actual notorious reputation of track and our agitation started converting into seriousness. All of sudden, my friend shouted, “we found the company”. Luckily they were hikers and looking for some water, we helped them and moved on. After one hour we reached the top. It was full of green foliage and clouds were up to the vision extent, making it an unforgettable moment. At the peak, we came upon unexpectedly a couple of YouTubers making photographs and video footage for their youtube channel. And being initial vlogger, I collaborated with them regarding travel vlogs.
Now, we caught our glance at another talisman peak, far away from our position and decided to chase it. This was the robust part of trekking as we have to pass through grass, bushes, plains and steeper path. This unyielding path almost drained our energy. At any rate, we arrived on this top in next 2.5hrs. At this peak, we found ourselves in the state of being relaxed and observed nature. There were some locals playing cricket on the top, we joined them as am really captivated of it. There were remains of a historical building that depicting the impermanent nature of living and non-living matter. Then we had some rest, ate the apple, got some energy and decided to come back, it was already 2:30pm.
Unfortunately, we lost the track and scattered in the hills. We roamed for about 4hrs but couldn’t find the way. We were stunned and fearful as it was about to dark and cell phones were out of power. We sat in anxiety to ponder upon the solution and heard a voice of goat. Following the voice, we saw a small home approximately 200m below from our position. Having no other means, we contacted the resident in the home by shouting and he guided us to the home. In spite of our critical mental depression and physical weakness, he was unable to offer us residence. On the request of his grandmother, he was ready to lead us to the starting point. The old village resident guided us to the steepest path. It was dark, fear aroused inside our souls being alone with an unknown person. We prayed the God almighty by remembering our good deeds in the past.
In the meantime a horrible incident occurred when moving on a tail along hills on left side and abyss on right, my friend slipped and fell to a depth of 15meters. Luckily, he grasped bushes to withstand on a fairy level place. Anyhow, we rescued him by particular planning. It was a moment we had to take rest as he was trembling and shivering continuously. By eating fruit (got from villager’s home) gathered some strength and moved on.
There was a waterfall on the way. “cross it carefully otherwise you will be blown away by water thrust”, he warned us. Crossed that way by holding hands of each other. Finally, it took 3hrs to reach the starting point. We thanked God, offered money to the old man as a reward but he refused by saying, “I love serving people”. We stayed in the hotel at night and came back to university in the morning.
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