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Reporter Anasuya Kesavan was warned by a friend to 'expect the unexpected' before departing on a family trek to the Greater Himalayan ranges in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. The two-week trip called 'Chardham Yatra' (journey to four shrines) is the most sacred of all Hindu pilgrimages and has been undertaken by devotees and travellers for centuries. Her group included her father, Govinda Rao, now 76 - who made the same journey on foot in the early 1960s - mother Radha, banker husband Kesavan, and daughters, Sreedevi, 16, and Madhavi, five.
