The Kinner Kailash Shivling, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh

The Holy Kinner Kailash Shivling in District Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh is a site of much veneration.

The holy Shivling is situated on the Kinner Kailash Range at an altitude of nearly 4700-4800m; which houses crowns of the like of Kinner Kailash (6050m), Jorkanden (6473m), Sarong (6020m), Raldang (5493m) as visible from Kalpa. The Kinner Kailash Range essentially recognised as the Eastern-most extension of the Great Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh, further extends eastwards & southwards in Kinnaur.

 

Each year in the monsoon season pilgrims throng to take blessings from Shiva at this holy sight, where the mountain adjacent to the Holy Shivling (Mt. Kinner Kailash 6050m) is known all over as the Winter Abode of Lord Shiva.

 

The route to the Shivling on the Kinner Kailash Range can be approached via Tangling village on the left bank of Satluj. However another route also leads to base camp through Ribba village.

 

The route to the top is pure ascent. In 7-8 hours from Tangling village one can reach the base camp for an early climb next morning.

Moving above 4000m the next day through a stiff boulder filled terrain, it should normally take 4.5 hrs to reach the Holy Shivling from base camp. We reached RekongPeo by night; after 17 hrs trek and 30 mins journey by car on the second day from base camp. This makes the Kinner Kailash Shivling Trek quite an arduous affair, but after all its only the power of faith that may move the mountain.

 

Power is Faith, Faith Power.

 

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PS: Here's another magnificent view of the Shivling www.flickr.com/photos/annyatoma/7657038184/in/photostream

 

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