Narkanda ski slopes
30
Dec
Narkanda ski slopes
It is the central point for many treks and also famous for skiing. Skiing was started here in 1980 and every year the Tourism Department conducts ski courses.
Narkanda falls on the old Hindustan-Tibet Road which was started by the British Governor General Lord Dalhousie in 1850. Sir Charles Napier, the then Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in India, had designed the map of the road. I think that the road was completed before the year 1873 because Andrew Wilson, who traversed the road in 1873, writes, “The cut bridle-path, which has been dignified by the name of ‘The Great Hindusthan and Tibet Road’, that leads along the sides of the hills from Shimla to Narkanda Ghaut and from Narkanda up the valley of the Sutlej to Chini (now Kalpa) and Pangay (now Pangi), is by no means so exasperating as the native paths of the inner Himalaya. It does not require one to dismount every five minutes…..Nevertheless, the cut road, running as it often does without any parapet, or with none to speak of, and only seven or eight feet broad, across the face of enormous precipices and nearly precipitous slopes, is even more dangerous for equestrians than are the rude native paths.
