I
was one more year older on this day- 30th July, which added one more
feather in my life. We decided to go for Waterfall Rappelling at Vihi, thrilling
and exciting and out of the world experience. We realised the meaning of fear,
meaning of life.
Waterfall
Rappelling is an activity in which one descends by rope depending on the flow of
waterfall. Full force of water and slippery wall gives you tough challenges
when you rappel down.
We
joined offbeat Sahyadri group at 6.00 a.m. near Dadar station.
Entire team took lot of efforts to make this event safe and enjoyable. We
reached Vihi at around 11 a.m. The first
view of lush green Vihi was amazing.
It
started drizzling. When we reached the top of waterfall,
two other groups had already started rappelling. We were all set and we were
allotted serial numbers, we were almost in second last batch. Till that time we
were free to roam around. We got enough time to capture Vihi village in our
mini camera. We enjoyed in small waterfall, got drenched in water.
Now
the time had arrived, it was our turn, we were excited but now we felt
butterflies in stomach and wobbling knees. We were asked to tie ourselves with two ropes,
wear harness, helmet and hand gloves and two people were supporting us, one
from top of waterfall and other from base. We waited to see few people
rappelling down, many were scarred like us, few got minor injuries as well on
knee and elbow. One of our new friend who was almost last (rappelling under heavy flow of
water) rappelled very nicely. Actually you need to develop few techniques for rappelling down smoothly. You actually need to balance your body while coming down. We
all knew this, but fear plays its role and we invite pain.
With
the first step, I realised the meaning of strength, strength of water, water
was in great force, it was difficult to maintain balance, we managed to stand
for few seconds and after that we were lost in water and here we understood
importance of our life. Volunteers really helped us to get out of this
situation.
After
that we went down to see waterfall through which we did rappelling, it was a
giant waterfall with height of apprx 120 ft. We made an attempt to rappel this
waterfall!!!!
It
was overall thrilling experience and enjoyed and had a blast.
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