Sunday, July 18, 2004

dimache is for hiking

And the reason I worked yesterday, was todays day-long hiking trip. Went to fiesch in the 7 am train from Lausanne. Lot of people - in total 8 of us. Megha, Satya, Gaurav and Vibhor 0 interning at EPFL from IITD. And 2 swiss guys - David and Michael. Went by ropeway to Eggishorn and then did a long 6 hour hike along crazily beautiful high mountain along a glacier. A really nice and memorable experience, and also very enjoyable company. Took quite a few pictures and will post them when I get to develop the film. Need to switch to digital, i think pretty soon. :-|
Saw a lovely view of a vast glacier, and high mountain ranges all around. Was pretty cold, but with all the exsertion we were doing, not feeling it at all. So, many people were doing hand gliding, diving from hilltops and seemingly floating forever in the air. Need to do it sometime. Except the prohibitive cost of learning it and doing it is a bit of a dampner. But, kabhi to karengey.