Chapter 16 Sunny - his story (1/2)

Sunny was sharing his tent with Sherpa. Their tent was adjacent to the tent occupied by Danny and Ben on one side and on the other side was the forest area below and the conifers and the reforestation area as well as the small hills and the alpine pastures with rhododendrons spread out. The boys had occupied tents at the extreme ends and kept the tents of the 5 girls and their teacher in the middle. This was to provide protection to the girls in a way.

As soon as the girls bid good night and headed for their tents to sleep, the boys also made their way towards their respective tents. Sunny also decided to sleep as he was tired, so he bid good-night to his fellow students, Zia ma'am and Luke Sir. Then he headed towards the end of the tents on the forest side as their tent was the last one. Sherpa, on the other hand, told Sunny to proceed to the tent and sleep. He had some work to finish first.

Sunny had been very excited about the camping trip. He had read up about the area where the camping site was and he was very happy about the three days trip. In a way, it was an adventure for him.

The mountains covered with snow looked beautiful in the moonlight. When he was holding the telescope to gaze at the stars, he had turned it towards the mountains to focus on the sides to see if he could have a sighting of the Yeti. No one had brought any proof. Whatever videos were available were fake. Even he could not see any Yeti.

But now, there was solid proof of its existence. For the first time, a government department, an Indian Army Mountaineering Expedition Team, had sited huge footprints close to Mount Makalu Base Camp on 09.04.2019. Mount Makalu is about 40 km away from Mount Everest, in Nepal. These footprints belonged to the 'Abominable Snowman' also called 'Yeti' or 'Big Foot'. The Indian Army was on a mountaineering trip in Nepal to ascent Mount Makalu. They had taken measurements and had also made a video film of the footprint. These videos will be examined and with computer imaging, some sort of height can be gauged maybe a figure can also be made. The footprint was 32 inches long and the width was 15 inches, three times that of a normal male foot. This would mean that the average height of bigfoot would be about 3 times say 18 feet.

As he walked towards his tent he was thinking that if they venture towards the snow-covered mountain and then the glacier area, they could meet the Yeti. Whether it was friendly or not was another issue.

The sky was so clear that one could see clearly even a few bats flying around on the other side of the hills from where they had come.

Sunny soon entered his tent. After taking off his shoes, jacket, etc, he got into his sleeping bag.He knew that he would probably be asleep before Sherpa came to the tent.

His parents had agreed to this camping trip so that he would have some experience of managing himself alone for a few days. His father's name was Harish and his mother's name was Hersha. They were both working in Government departments. His younger brother, Anil, was about 12 years of age and was studying in the same school.

He liked Luke Sir and Zia ma'am and felt that they would eventually get married. But it was none of his business to think about them.

He could not see his mobile. Without phones, life was extremely difficult. He could not even read his favorite novels on web-novels. They all were getting a taste of no connectivity, no phones, no mobiles, no net, no YouTube, etc. and no electricity.

In spite of push buttons phones and dialing the numbers phones in those times these were also advancements in technology. The dialing phone was cumbersome. One had to place the index finger in the respective slots, one after another, and dialing all the way around till a click sound was heard. Thereafter one proceeded to the next digit and so on. After completion of the dialing of all numbers could your call be connected. The computers used to be huge even occupying one full room. Slowly and with time they became compact. The then huge computers were instrumental in sending someone to space and the moon in 1969. At that time, that technology was advanced.