Shilla Col

Coordinates are: 32°25'38"N 78°12'16"E Spiti, which literally means the 'middle land' , lies on the Indian border with Tibet across the main range of Himalaya, also known as the 'Transhimalaya'.

These Paleozoic Era fossils represent some of the earliest legged creatures, relatives of crabs and spiders.

H. Paider returned to Poo on the Sutlej and followed the river down to Saharan where he gave himself up and made a full report to the police followed by the arrest of the murderers.

More recently Harish Kapadia led two expeditions to Spiti in 1983 & 87 which followed the Lingti river to its head and made ascents of Shilla, Parilungbi, Yangzi Diwan Pass among others.

This was also the first known/documented Shilla Nullah/Nala Exploration till its head, in Spiti, Himachal Pradesh (May-Jun 2015)[1] The 2016 committee for Jagdish Nanavati Award for Excellence in Mountaineering, acknowledged and mentioned the report submitted by the expedition to Shilla Nala as, "a quality production, comprehensive, perfectly clear and with good historical content.