Balwant Singh is a guide who accompanies parties of trekkers and hikers in the Kumaon and Garhwal Himalayas. He manages teams of porters who are essential for mountaineering expeditions in these parts. Here he kindles a campfire at the Kathalia campsite on the trekking trail to the Mai Ki Toli base camp and Sunderdhunga valley in the Nanda Devi National Park in the Kumaon.