I will make no bones about it- at the age of 27 years I have been blessed and fortunate enough to travel extensively within India and internationally. Being an avid trekker, mountain climber and cyclist I have opted to save up and attempt niche and relatively isolated places mountains, hills and trails. No place in world affords such exclusivity as the pristine and untouched state of Arunachal Pradesh in the North East India.
With dense mentally and physically challenging jungle to its towering snow-capped mountains, Arunachal Pradesh is my favourite place in the world. It has always baffled me as to why mainstream mountaineers and trekkers have always given the Arunachal Pradesh a step motherly treatment but why should I complain? I have never felt nor I have ever experienced such a sheer sense of wanderlust and awe on my time on this little 3rd blue planet revolving around the sun as I do in Arunachal Pradesh.
Needless, to say in the past two yearsI have focussed on trekking and climbing mountains extensively in Arunachal Pradesh from the Tawang region, Gorasam, Mechuka, Hirong and eastern point ridges of the Dibang –Dihang Bioshpere, but the tale I seek to tell you is about a mountain called Lola Shin Lin DamI climbed in 2015, the sheer isolation, pristine and raw untouched beauty of which is what makes for my seductive love affair with Arunachal Pradesh.
At 6200 meters, Mt. Lola Shin Lin Dam with a high prominence at round 4995 metres located between the border of West Siang and Upper Siang districts of Arunachal Pradesh, it certainly does not compare in height to either Mt. Kangtoor Mt Gorichin nor is it a technical ascent. The mountains of central and eastern Arunachal Pradesh are unique in there characteristic of having a lot of greenery and vegetation at very high altitudes as opposed to their sister central and western Himalayans counterparts.





























