Debsa Pass (el. 5,340 m (17,520 ft)) is a high mountain pass in the Himalaya mountains between the Kullu and Spiti Districts of Himachal Pradesh, India.
It was named by Joydeep Sircar, who initially surmised that such a pass might exist after studying maps of the area. Sircar led the teams which explored the watershed ridge and discovered the pass after approaching through the Parbati River valley in Kullu. After an abortive attempt on an impassa...
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Debsa Pass (el. 5,340 m (17,520 ft)) is a high mountain pass in the Himalaya mountains between the Kullu and Spiti Districts of Himachal Pradesh, India.
It was named by Joydeep Sircar, who initially surmised that such a pass might exist after studying maps of the area. Sircar led the teams which explored the watershed ridge and discovered the pass after approaching through the Parbati River valley in Kullu. After an abortive attempt on an impassable col further North in 1992, the actual pass was located and reached in 1993, but the team refrained from crossing it into Spiti under the mistaken impression that they could be arrested because they did not have Inner Line Permits required for Spiti! Two years later, the 1995 team planned to approach from the Spiti side, which involves much less height gain, but tremendous autumn floods in the upper valley of theBeas River and other areas of Himachal which wrecked roads forced them to take the Parbati approach again. This time they crossed...
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