Some Unseen truth of Kedarnath Disaster(Part-2)

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Natural beauty Pictures

These are the frozen rivers melting and flowing under the ice

Pictures Showing mismanagement and uncontrolled crowd

 The rallying for support are too weak. and are dangerous too. if someone leans from then they will surly fall.

Reached Kedarnath Temple

We reached Kedarnath at 3PM and found that the temple was closed and will open for darshan at 5PM. During this two hours i.e from 3 to 5 PM pandits decorates the shiv ling .Due  to this the queue for darshan was increasing continuously.

Queue for darshan in kedarnath

There was only a small shed to protect all pilgrims from freeze wind and rain.One can find all age group people standing and waiting  eagerly for darshan.At the end of queue there was small ashram which is distributing tea and kichdi without any cost. 

After some time around 4 PM a pandit came and told that if someone is feeling delay in his program due to unavailability of darshan from 3 to 5 than he can pay 2100Rs and can do darshan by VIP pass. This was too cheap that on one side you are saying that Loard shiva takes rest from 3 to 5 and if one is paying extra money then they are allowing him to visit temple. At 5 PM we seen a movement in line  and someone told that temple is opened for the darshan,at same time a heavy rain  drenched  us completely and we all started shivering. But Darshan of kedarnath energized us and we decided to return to Gaurikund and not to stay in kedarnath.

                     

Back to Gaurikund

 So at 6 PM we left the temple and started moving towards the Ramwada.

We reached Ramwada at 9 PM and now the track from Ramwada to Gaurikund which was still 7 Km became difficult. The track became slippery due to rain and horse excreta. There are generators but not a single one is working , there is only 10 feet visibility and we slipped many times in the ditches full of mud and horse stool. 

But here also I can see many Pilgrims tracking towards the temple in that horrible  mid night with small kids and old people. I asked them to take rest in Gaurikund and not to move towards the Kedarnath in night but they said " we want to reach temple before 5 AM and will be back tomorrow in noon". There were also small shelters made for the travelers to take rest but on that rainy night all the shelters were full and there is no place even to stand.Finally any how we can back to Gaurikund at 11:30Pm (almost midnight).

Now it was not possible to move out of Gaurikund because there were no mobile signals and we have no idea of our driver and car so we decided have night halt  at Gaurikund and tried calling driver all night but was of no use.

Next morning  was also rainy and no signals again ,so we waited for driver for 3 hours and at 9 Am I decided to go to to all the parking areas to search our car. So when I started walking from Gaurikund to Phata ,I saw that the parking No.1 was completely immersed in water and thanks to  god that we have not got place here for parking. Then I moved further and checked all the parking but all were in same condition the cars and other vehicles are immersing slowly into the water and water level too increasing slowly. But after moving 5 kms from Gaurikunnd I got signals and called the driver asking him to come to  Gaurikund. The video below was captured while moving from gaurikund to Sitapur. And one can here the terrifying noise of the river and can feel the small stones coming from the river along with droplets(means with water rocks are flowing ).

The river was looking like boiling milk one cant find any thing not even buses which already flooded into the river.
So we moved quickly. Till Sitapur there was no problem. We heard  some horse owners talking that the horse parking of Ramwada collapsed in to river.But when we reached Sitapur there we found a heavy
traffic and heard a news that the hill was collapsed on road near Phata and will take 24 hours to clear the road. So we decidec to stay in a hotel in Sitapur and decided for night-halt. There were nearly 700 people looking for shelter but all are not lucky, so some decided to sleep in buses and in  other vehicles in parking area.

Some Unseen truth of Kedarnath Disaster(Part-3)