The Great Adventure

Raj Lalwani experiences the Raid De Himalaya 2016, one of the grand chapters in the Indian motorsporting calendar, and comes away, with a few photos and some thoughts.

There was a brief while, on the way to Kaza, when a tiny voice inside of me seemed to give up. This isn’t something I can do, said that voice of doubt, a thought that has almost never come to my head. Mountain sick, car sick, I decided I was just sick of this in general, as I blinked through my fourth night of no sleep straight, holding onto my camera, almost as if it was that one spot of comfort, one air of familiarity. Exhausted, exasperated, I threw my head back and wondered if this was what the Raid was about, the Raid de Himalaya that the fun fellows at Maruti had invited me for, the motorsporting milestone that gave my friends a hint of a goosebump and a spark in their eye, when I told them that I was going to photograph it.