White Washed

A Drive Through a Tonne of Snow Gets to Your Head Quite Quickly

- Aadil Naik

I think a rainbow perfectly describes human life. It is filled with ups and downs. The colours make us happy, the rain makes us glum. But we put up with the rain for the better visual future. And when the colours start to fade we see hope that they will return, and hope is all man needs to survive. My latest outing with Mahindra Adventure was just like this. Hopeful, disappointing, exhilarating and at the end, just so damn rewarding.

The Snow Escape, like most such adventures, started in an urban city, this time Chandigarh. The drive to our first halt, Narkanda, was quite glum if I’m being honest. That beautiful town of Shimla is now an overcrowded city, with pollution being spewed in gas, liquid and solid form everywhere. We got stuck in traffic trying to make it past, before eventually getting through. The only solace was seeing snow on the side of the roads by the time we reached Narkanda. And the temperature started to drop (eventually falling to six-degrees) in the evening. It seemed we were on the right track!