A group of PAHAR members has done the preliminary tour of the route followed by the British Surveyors in 1808. The group members were Shekhar Pathak, Dan Jantzen, Sher Singh Pangtey and Girish Tewari ‘Girda’. They traveled from Hardwar, Dehradun, New Tehri, Chinyali Saur, Dunda, Uttarkashi, Bhatwari, Gangotri route, Dayara Bugyal, Chandravadani, Devprayag, Shrinagar, Rudra Prayag and Karn Prayag.

The rest of the tour will be done in June 2008.

Next year in the month of April-July students will follow the 1808 route from Hardwar to Gangotri to Dev Prayag to Badrinath to Kunwari Pass to Dhamas (Almora) to Rudrapur.