They sprint to another platform and run alongside the train, trying to locate the carriage with their luggage. A whistle sounds, and the Englishmen realise their connecting train is about to depart too. Kusang, Angtharkay and Pasang prepare a meal of mushrooms and bamboo shoots at their boulder camp in a bamboo forest, during their expedition to Garhwal and Nanda Devi in 1934 (Photo: Eric Shipton)īut despite their eccentric performance the train pulls away, much to the relief of the passengers squeezed inside, and there is still no sign of the two Sherpas.
Indian railway stations are chaotic places at the best of times, and unless the Englishmen can find the Sherpas and help them, it seems unlikely they will be able to find the connecting train on their own.
Their luggage is packed away inside another train to Kathgodam, due to depart in ten minutes, and their companions are Sherpas who have never travelled on a train in their lives and don’t speak a word of Hindi. May 1934, Bareilly Railway Station, India, and two suited Englishman and a Sherpa are running up and down a platform, screaming at the top of their voices, and peering into the carriages of a crowded train, trying to locate two companions they have arranged to meet.
