Each year as devotees trek up 3,880 metres high to reach the holy cave shrine of Amarnath and complete the 60-day annual pilgrimage, many reports of deaths and accidents emerge.
“I was a student of class 8 when I started working as a tour guide, only so that I could support my family with some income. By the time I was in class 10, my family's financial condition had gotten worse, and I was forced to quit school to work full time.”