Give yourself a break. Embrace complete isolation. Walk the seldom-trod paths, and for twelve days, live what's alive. I've led people into many remote corners of Kumaon, but the Johar Valley is a different kind of remote. This is where the old Bhotia traders once walked their goods over the Himalaya into Tibet, before the 1962 border closure shut the route down and left entire villages half-emptied. Jauhar isn't a single peak or a single pass — it's three of the valley's big