• Ep. 7: Darjeeling

  • Written by: Vincent Ebrahim
  • Jun 7 2018
  • Length: 36 mins
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Ep. 7: Darjeeling

Written by: Vincent Ebrahim
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  • Vincent and his son Emile head into the Himalayan foothills. This time to explore Darjeeling, a town as famous for its mountaineers as its tea. It's a former British hill station and is where some of the British Raj would come in the summer months to escape the heat of the plains and to take in the mountain air.

    Vincent meets Dorjee Lhatoo, a retired sherpa now in his 70s who, in 1984, accompanied Bachendri Pal to the summit of Everest. She was the first Indian woman ever to make the ascent. Together they visit the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, a training camp for mountaineers and a museum to India's proud Sherpa heritage.

    It's also home to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, whose narrow gauge trains use a series of switch-backs and loops to gain more than 2100 vertical metres, climbing from the plains up into the hills. Originally intended to connect passengers and tea leaves with the port at Kolkata, the railway still runs a full timetable: much of it using the original steam locomotives, some of which are more than 125 years old.
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