Short, succinct captions characterise this page. It didn`t really go too well for the two of us. The road to Gangotri was washed out from monsoon rains in places, so we spent the first three days walking it before getting to the trail proper above Gangotri. Our guide concocted a story about his wife being ill, and left us after two days. "Did a runner" is more appropriate. He simply didn`t turn up one morning. The trail itself was washed out in places, and my wife, not having the best head for heights, balked at one of the many fences presented before her. I had a back problem and after the bumpy jeep-ride back to Uttarkashi, woke up in the hotel unable to move an inch in my bed. So the three days that we should have spent admiring Shivling and other giants were instead spent in that hotel room waiting for the spasm to ease. Gripe over.