Dehradun, Dec. 6 -- Culinary Chronicles

Bana, the highest and the most treacherous battle field defended by any nation - 1996. How the journey commenced from the snout to "Quaid-e-Azam". Ice wall near vertical with the crampons surely dug in.

It was surprising and confusing to watch a man - an army personnel of the same age as Tiger or maybe more, touching his feet with moisture in his eyes. "Sahib, I owe you my second life," he said.

Later I questioned Tiger about that, I was curious to know why that man was so full of indebtedness towards him.

It all happened when Tiger volunteered to secure a post at twenty-one thousand feet at Bana in the Siachen Glacier. A hazardous trek on snow walls of eighty kilometres from the base and twenty...