‘The Himalayas want you to die’
When I decided to go to India this summer, my parents, naturally, were worried. I originally attempted to assuage their fears by telling them a small white lie: India is not dangerous, only the Kashmir region is. I didn’t realize at the time that I was only making things harder for myself when I called, three weeks into my three-month-long trip, to tell my parents that I was going trekking in Kashmir for a week. And though I said Kashmir was “dangerous” because of the frequent incursions and insurgencies in the area, it was not, ironically, a band of Kashmiri freedom fighters that...
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