12/06/2026
What is happiness ? Happiness is the satisfying exhaustion of a breakthrough.
I was in my hotel room in Manali. Past midnight and I was wide awake. I was tired, and badly wanted a good sleep. I still couldn't. Weary body and content soul. Weird combo, isn't it? My mind replayed the entire Sach Pass journey, and I sat back in the dark, a silent spectator to my own adventure.
I wanted to walk on the Sach Pass road.
I didn't just want to pass through, I wanted to see the edge of Sach Pass, feeling the vertigo of the deep valleys and the thrill of the mountain's sharpest corners.
Sach Pass is called Big Daddy Of All The Passes. Why is it so when there are many other passes at higher altitude than Sach Pass? That was the seed of Sach Pass Expedition 2026. I was very lucky to get like-minded travel buddies. All women group to explore Sach Pass.
Planning, organizing, stays and vehicles everything was finalized. The time factor is crucial for these expeditions and we were lucky that our timing was perfect. The weather played a great role. No rain, No bright Sun.
We saw many forms of the mighty Himalayas. From romantically beautiful to stark, unforgiving. Beautiful lush meadows. Slopes painted with wildflowers of various colours and shapes. Crystal clear waters crossed our path frequently. Massive glacial waterfalls crashing into the deep valleys with a deafening roar. Watching those huge waters moving was hypnotic yet terrifying.I realized once again how tiny I am.
We were flanked by towering walls of solid white ice, sheer and ancient, holding back the weight of the mountain.Stepping into that landscape felt like slipping into an ancient timezone—a world so perfectly still, frozen, and vast that the contemporary world felt like a distant myth. Reaching the Sach Pass was not just a journey, it was a pilgrimage of grit, where the mountain strips away the trivial and leaves you face-to-face with raw existence.
Night in that Manali hotel room, As I replayed the entire journey that night, a profound wave of contentment washed over me. We had looked a massive dream in the eye and actually made it ours. Every narrow turn and towering ice wall replayed in my mind, leaving me with an overwhelming sense of contentment. The dream was no longer ahead of us, it was within us.