There is nothing like an adventure in the mountains surrounded by the nature’s giants It was the end of July 2020 and Covid-19 engulfed the earth. Lockdowns, travel restrictions and closure of public places were the order of the day. Grown bored with working from home in Lahore, I decided to head to my second home, in an Islamabad suburb. I went for long walks in the Bani Gala hillocks and watched movies. One of those was Vertical Limit, a K-2 survival thriller. Watching the movie made me wonder about the depth of human determination. Exhilarated, I dropped a line to my motorbike pals on a social group about undertaking a trek in the north, if travel restrictions were lifted.