chanderi rescue operation on 28th-29th October 2018

. According to him, his actual plan was to visit chanderi fort and see the cave and the statue of shivaji maharaj atop the fort (to reach top of chanderi fort one has to climb and traverse a few rockpatches). Only information that he had was about the statue on top of the fort. He had took the route from badlapur(chincholi village) towards chanderi fort. Before reaching the col between chanderi and mhaismal, he took another route and somehow reached a col in mhaismal pinnacles. As mountains appear different from different distances and because he was unfamiliar with the region, he was under the impression that he is on chanderi and began climbing the pinnacles. He climbed a proper rock face of around 120ft, climbed down into another col between 2 pinnacles and climbed another 50ft of scree and loose rocks thinking that he was going to reach chanderi and once he reaches the top, there would be another proper route to get down. But when he reached atop the second pinnacle he realized that he was not on chanderi and was on mhaismal mountain, adjacent to chanderi fort as he wasn’t able to locate the statue of Shivaji Maharaj. According to him, He tried descending once but he slipped about 80ft and realised that he needs to seek help now and shouldn’t make any more mistakes (Which was one of the best decisions he had made in our opinion

https://mumbaihikers.net/blog/2018/10/31/team-nisargamitra-panvel-chanderi-rescue-operation-on-28th-29th-october-2018/