What an informative post! It inspires me to accumulate some body fat now 😊.

All your pictures are soul refreshing and beautiful. I was thinking before even I started reading it, how cold this water would be and you stated the temperature to be 10-15 C (as if you took a thermometer along 😉). But isn't it feels much colder when this 10 degree 'hot' water falls on you from this much height compared to just taking a dip in a still water of same temp.?

I once dared to take a dip at the source of a holy river called Yamuna (a tributary of Ganga). When glaciers melt and the water start flowing into a stream, it isn't dip enough to even dive in. So I just laid down to get completely wet in her waters. But the water felt ice-cold and in less than a minute I felt some pain in my chest. I immediately got out of it and ran as fast as I could to a hot natural sulphur spring at some distance and dived into it. I still think that hot water spring was a life saver for me at that time. I didn't try to dive into the cold water again, when I visited the Gaumukh (origin of river Ganga in Himalayas), where it's quite deep though.