Tata Steel announced that the Fit@50+ Women’s Trans Himalayan expedition team just concluded its month-long journey in the country of Nepal. After 90-days of rigorous trekking, the team is finally back on Indian soil. Spending a whole month in Nepal that is home to 8 of the 14 mountains above 8000 meters, including Mt Everest, the tallest peak on Earth, the team is looking forward to the third and final stretch of the expedition in the Indian subcontinent.Standing the test of age, these women stealthily paved their way through the state of Arunachal Pradesh. At an elevation of 3,727 feet, Pangsau Pass marked the beginning of the expedition. Situated in the Patkai Hills on the India-Myanmar border, this pass offers one of the easiest routes into Burma from the Assam plains. The team paid their respect to the village goddess before taking the roads. This journey began on 12 March 2022 at Pang-sau Pass in the India-Myanmar border where a group of 12 women in the age group of 50-68 years under the leadership of Padma Bhushan Ms Bachendri Pal, embarked on a 5-month long journey of traversing 4,977 kilometers across the Himalayan extreme from East to West. The team had covered a distance of 650 kilometers across Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Upper West Bengal & Sikkim while they travelled for more than 1500 kilometers in the western, central and eastern Nepal. Breaking out of I am too old for this, the team walked an average of 25 kilometers every day in the initial phase of the expedition, gradually increasing the distance over time. This was the acclimatization phase where the participating women along with the support staff tuned their bodies to the mountain conditions.
Tata Steel announced that the Fit@50+ Women’s Trans Himalayan expedition team just concluded its month-long journey in the country of Nepal. After 90-days of rigorous trekking, the team is finally back on Indian soil. Spending a whole month in Nepal that is home to 8 of the 14 mountains above 8000 meters, including Mt Everest, the tallest peak on Earth, the team is looking forward to the third and final stretch of the expedition in the Indian subcontinent.Standing the test of age, these women stealthily paved their way through the state of Arunachal Pradesh. At an elevation of 3,727 feet, Pangsau Pass marked the beginning of the expedition. Situated in the Patkai Hills on the India-Myanmar border, this pass offers one of the easiest routes into Burma from the Assam plains. The team paid their respect to the village goddess before taking the roads. This journey began on 12 March 2022 at Pang-sau Pass in the India-Myanmar border where a group of 12 women in the age group of 50-68 years under the leadership of Padma Bhushan Ms Bachendri Pal, embarked on a 5-month long journey of traversing 4,977 kilometers across the Himalayan extreme from East to West. The team had covered a distance of 650 kilometers across Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Upper West Bengal & Sikkim while they travelled for more than 1500 kilometers in the western, central and eastern Nepal. Breaking out of I am too old for this, the team walked an average of 25 kilometers every day in the initial phase of the expedition, gradually increasing the distance over time. This was the acclimatization phase where the participating women along with the support staff tuned their bodies to the mountain conditions.
