J&K Adventure Sports Club (JKASC) organized snow-trek to Srinagar’s highest peak Mahadev on Thursday.
The three member team undertook this arduous trek andcompleted it in 14 hours after negotiating the track filled with full of snow.
The trekkers started at 6 am at Dara and reached Lidwas at10:10 am where they took meals and headed for onward journey to Mahadev peak.They climbed the first peak at 2:30 pm and then scaled another peak whichstands at 3,966 m altitude.
The members also did snowshoeing while returning back fromthe peak.
The trek was organized to provide an opportunity to Valley’stop athletes MuzamilHussain Mir and Shah Suhail to develop stamina, legstrength, core stability and to prepare them for the upcoming road race andmarathon competitions.
Muzamil Mir said they have to do strenuous cross-trainingexercises to make muscles strong for the competitions.
“As the spring has already set in, there will be a lot ofathletic competitions at the college and the university levels for which we arepreparing. The J&KASC is the right platform for athletes to develop theirmuscle strength. We also go for short sky running on Zabarwan hills to ramp upour speed,” said Muzamil.
Meanwhile, a spokesman of the J&KASC thanked the tourismdepartment Kashmir for facilitating them with snowshoes for this trek, whichmade the climb of the steep slopes on snow easier.
The J&KASC will also organise over 30 km sky runningfrom Burzahama to AstanMarg top from where the athletes will take mountaintrail to reach TakyaSangrishi in Khimber Village and return back to Burzahamato complete the circuit.