We Did Buran Ghati in 2026— No Guide, No Porters, With a Beginner

Three of us. No guide. No porters. One beginner who hadn't trekked in 10 years. This is Buran Ghati alpine style — and the one moment we had to ask for help. In May 2026, we crossed the 4,580m Buran Ghati pass in Himachal Pradesh self-supported — carrying everything, cooking everything, navigating it ourselves. This is the complete story, what it cost us, and how we managed the technical descend. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 Intro 00:50 Meet the Trekkers 01:55 Day 1 Janglik to Dayara & Maoti 04:16 Day 2 Maoti to Litham 04:59 Chandranahan Lake 06:28 Day 3 — Litham to Dhunda 09:10 Day 4 — Dhunda to Buran Pass & Mane Rang 12:12 Day 5 — Mane Rang to Barua 12:52 Trek Cost 13:27 Trek Verdict ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗻 ABOUT THE TREK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Trek: Buran Ghati, Himachal Pradesh Start point: Janglik village (Rohru valley) End point: Barua village/ Barua Kainchi Max altitude: 4,572 meters | 15000 feet (Buran Pass) Days on trail: 5 Style: Alpine — no guide, no porters, no fixed itinerary Permits: Forest Department permit, obtainable online or through a local contact at the trailhead. Camping: ₹400 / tent / night Trail fee: ₹100 / person ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎒 GEAR USED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Backpack : Simond (Decathlon ₹9999) 50+10 MT500 Air : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/5kyEd1 2. Backpack : Simond (Decathlon ₹11999) 60+10 MT500 Air : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/GbOJy2 3. Shoes (for Beginners) : Quechua MH100 Olive (₹4999) Waterproof : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/m4jqmO or Black Color : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/qWm9jg 4. Shoes (for Advanced): Simond MT500 Leather Boots (₹ 16999) : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/gRqBEX 5. Tent 2 Person MT500 (₹7999) : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/E0O1ND or 3 Person (₹9999) : https://decathlonindia.pxf.io/WOArke 6. Butane Can Coleman with propane (Works well on High Altitude) (₹849) : https://amzn.to/4cM9rii (compatible with screw top stoves) 7. Emergency Blanket Pack of 4 (₹1600) highly recommended for emergencies : https://amzn.to/4uqhnLU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 CREDITS & THANKS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Trekkers: Abhishek Sohu, Aditya Beniwal, Yashank Sihag Rappel descent: The Indiahikes team (Santosh) helped us with their fixed rope on the Buran descent. Thanks for the assist. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👋 ABOUT ADVENTURINGSOHU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I'm Abhishek — Decathlon India's product trainer turned outdoor educator. This channel is about doing Himalayan treks the honest way: practical, real-cost, beginner-aware, and self-supported when possible. New videos every week. 🔔 Subscribe to follow the Alpine Series: Buran Ghati → Rupin Pass Reverse → Buran vs Rupin | Which Trek should you do First? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Instagram: [@adventuringsohu] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ Safety note: Alpine trekking carries real risks. Acclimatize properly, carry navigation, first aid, buffer food and don't attempt technical sections without proper rope/gear & training. The Buran rappel is not safe without a fixed line and experience. #BuranGhati #HimalayanTrekking #AlpineStyle #HimachalTreks #TrekkingIndia #IndianHimalayas #SelfSupportedTrekking #AdventuringSohu #IndianOutdoors #BeginnerTrek