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To Zero Point And Back: A Sojourn To Sikkim's Yumthang Valley

The world outside is impacting Sikkim's once remote and verdant Yumthang Valley

Zero Point offers a spectacular view of snow-clad mountains and the Yumthang Valley Photo: Unsplash
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Anger is a powerful motivator. It can plunge you headlong into avoidable situations. That's how I'd landed in North Sikkim's Yumthang Valley—too early in the season, without a travel partner, the benefit of careful research or even the antidotes to treat a possible bout of high-altitude sickness (HAS). I was proving a point to the friend who had ditched me at the last moment.

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