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Have You Heard Of Nain Singh Rawat?

I'm ashamed to say that I didn't know who Nain Singh Rawat was until today, when Google made a doodle in his honour and put it on their homepage.  

Nain Singh Rawat was an Indian explorer born in the 19th century, on this day, October 21, 1830. He would grow up in the foothills of the Himalayas, looking up at the mountains and making friends in the area until one day, when he was 25 years old he would be contracted by German Explorers to map and explore much of the Himalayas, both the foothills and the greater Himalayas above them. 

And explore he did, Rawat is credited with mapping the trade routes between India and Tibet, much of the course of the Brahmaputra, as well as accurately mapping and discovering the co-ordinates of Lhasa, which remains the second most populous city in Tibet to this day. 

Rawat became good friends with the Tibetans, which in turn allowed him access to their resources and help for when he decided that the mountains were his calling. After working for the two German cartographers at the age of 25, Rawat went on to undertake many more cartography missions for the British government, braving the unforgiving snows, heights and air the greater Himalayas. 

I should add, there are no amount of pictures or descriptions that you can see or read to tell you just simply how magnificent the Himalayas are. One has to see it with their own two eyes, one has to be humbled in the face of sheer awe. There are no amount of pictures that will prepare you to see the Himalayas for the very first time, it is one of those very few things in life that will leave you completely awestruck when you actually see it for yourself.

And in mountains like these, men like Rawat ran around as if it was their business to map every inch of the mountain ranges. Rawat himself braved insane weather conditions, mortal peril and things worse than death just because he loved the mountains. That is something very inspiring. 

Read his Wikipedia entry by clicking here, lot of interesting information in there. 

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