Why a Fall Here Is Fatal - Gadgada Fort Trek, Nashik | Full Hiking Guide | EST Stage 01

https://reccy.in/ | https://thestack.club | https://sensibiotics.com | https://greenmormail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The complete Stage 1 guide: Gadgad Sanghvi to Pahine, Nashik. This video covers the Gadgad Sanghvi to Pahine stage of the Epic Sahyadri Trail (EST), near Nashik, Maharashtra. This stage is a 24 km hike with approximately 1,100 metres of elevation gain through forts, pinnacles, ancient tribal passes, forests, and plateaus. Starting from Gadgad Sanghvi, the route climbs to Gadgada Fort, passes beneath the massive Dangya Pinnacle, crosses the historic Sulichi Khind and Paanch Payare Khind, takes an optional out-and-back to Anjini Mata Mandir on the Anjaneri Plateau, and finally descends to Pahine village. Stage Details: Section: North Vaitarna Stage: Gadgad Sanghvi → Pahine Distance: 24 km Elevation Gain: 1,100 m POIs : Gadgada Fort - Dangya Pinnacle - Sulichi Khind - Paanch Payare Khind - Anjani Maata Mandir - Pahine ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What is EST? The Epic Sahyadri Trail (EST) is India's first continuous, fully mapped long-distance hiking trail — 1,724 km across the Sahyadri range in Maharashtra. EST is mapped and maintained by HikeX. EST documents and preserves historic routes, builds a national outdoor asset, and promotes responsible nature exploration — supporting local livelihoods and improving access and safety in the outdoors. EST Mapping Expedition 2026 Sponsors: The Stack Club — Official Sleep & Recovery Partner Sensibiotics — Official Travel Gut Health Partner Reccy — Official Apparel Partner GreenmorMail — Official Technology Partner ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HIKE THE EST OR THIS STAGE Full EST route & all 40 stages: https://hikex.in/est#stages GPX, latest updates & trail alerts: https://hikex.in/est-stage/gadgad-san... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MORE FROM HIKEX Join the community: https://manav.in/join Hiking Field Course (HFC): https://manav.in/hfc Workshop: https://manav.in/workshop Book: https://manav.in/book ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 EST Stage Intro 00:18 Epic Sahyadri Trail 01:57 EST Route 02:22 Table of Content 02:37 Suitability 03:07 Gadgad Sanghvi to Gadgada Fort 04:35 Gadgada Fort to Dangya Pinnacle 08:23 Dangya Pinnacle to Sulichi Khind 08:54 Sulichi Khind to Paanch Payare Khind 09:47 Anjaneri Out and Back 10:56 Paanch Payare Khind to Pahine 13:03 Bus Hike Bus 14:14 Seasons 14:57 Trail Resources ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT ME Manav (Manvendr Singh Shekhawat) has walked 14,000+ km across the Himalaya, Sahyadri, Nepal and Indonesia. He walked and mapped the entire EST solo, semi-supported, over 70 days. HikeX (Hiker Information and Knowledge Exchange) is an outdoor infrastructure organisation that maps, educates, advocates, and enables — the only one in India documenting trails through actual ground work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT Instagram:   / askmanav   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZjGfo8... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #GadgadaFort #NashikTrek #AnjaneriTrek #EpicSahyadriTrail #EST #Sahyadri #HikeX #TrekNearNashik #NashikCity #WesternGhats #ThruHiking #IndiaHiking #NorthVaitarna #Dangya #maharashtratourism