‘Adi Kailash’ and ‘Om Parvat yatra’ 2025 to start from May 14 this year

‘Adi Kailash’ and ‘Om Parvat yatra’ 2025 to start from May 14 this year

B.D.Kasniyal

Pithoragarh, March 27

‘Adi Kailash’ and ‘Om Parvat yatra’ for the year 2025, will begin from May 14, as the first batch of pilgrims will leave from Kathgodam to Dharchula on that day as per officials of the Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN), the government nodal agency conducting the yatra.

“We have today released schedule of ‘Adi Kailash’ and ‘Om Parvat yatra’, to make yatra hassle free. Our survey team will soon visit the high altitude region of the yatra,” said V.K Shukla, General Manager of Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam (KMVN).

KMVN official at base camp of Dharchula has informed that a total of 13 batches of ‘Adi Kailash’ pilgrims, including 8 batches from Kathgodam and 5 from Dharchula will visit the ‘Adi Kailash’ and ‘Parwati Sarowar’ besides ‘Om Parvat’ in first phase of yatra that will conclude in third week of June. The second phase of yatra will begin in the month of September after monsoon, and will continue till November.

“While the yatra from Kathgodam will take a total of 8 days from Kathgodam and back .The yatra from  base camp Dharchula will be of 4 days,” said GM of the nodal agency.

The yatra was made open for general tourists from the year  2021-22 when the road to ‘Adi Kailash’ was completed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).

According to the schedule, the ‘Adi Kailash’ pilgrims will also visit Chitai Golu, Jageshwar and Patal Bhubaneswar cave on their way back while they will also be taken to famous Himalayan view point of Chaukori and Almora town during their  return journey.

‘Adi Kailash’, a sacred peak inside Indian territory on the Indo-China border, that is included in the five peaks in the name of mount ‘Kailash’ named as ‘Panch Kailash’, visited by devotees of Lord Shiva from time immemorial but  ‘Adi Kailash’ came into limelight  in 2023, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the holy place on October 12, 2023.

“The Prime Minister’s visit to the Holi place resulted in a big boost for the place, as pilgrims started thronging it. The number of pilgrims reached nearly 32000 compared to mere 2000 before the Prime Ministers’s visit as pilgrimage was made open for general public from last year,” said Dhan Singh, a KMVN base camp official in Dharchula. The nodal agency has said that if weather remains friendly, the number of pilgrims to ‘Adi Kailash’ is expected to be much more.