1. AUG-A-1  Index to the Aug-A-series on the Lingshed Trek-2003.
2. The interval in Leh, regrouping, and farewells to the Ladakh-03 team, now veterans of Himalayan Medical Mission, and welcoming and acclimatizing the arriving participants of the Lingshed Trek-03.
3. Launch the Lingshed-03 trek across the Indus, beyond the Zanskar, and into the      remote roadless populations of Ladakhi/Tibetan villagers, on foot with medical and camping supplies portered by our packstock.
4. Return to Leh following three intensive weeks of the remote Lingshed-03 trek and medical camps from Fangila through seven passes on foot from fiteen to eighteen thousand feet elevation, along the Zanskar Range and across the Sura River Valley at disputed Kargil, to return by the Srinagar/Leh Road, dusty, weary, well-exercised, with a couple of new pair bonds and one just-now confirmed pregnancy as further markers of the events in the many miles at many feet elevation treating over a thousand patients in both Ladakh-03 and Lingshed-03.
5. The “transition day” in Leh, during which I was to have regrouped and packed up for the flight out first thing the following morning, now a vanishing dream, with a prolonged road trip to leave the “Hill Country” by bouncy vehicle to get to a port for a new arrangement of my soon to be missed international flights.
6. An update on “frequent non-flyer” trips to Leh Airport, and a return to re-check-in after preparations for an early morning departure, which seems to have been moved back again by yet another day,, missing my Lufthansa international flight from Delhi, and a return to the Hotel Khangri, Leh for another try again tomorrow.
7. Good news, bad news, and worse prospects: I am no longer stranded in Himalayan Ladakh; I am, instead, seriously stranded in hot, humid and crowded urban Delhi.
8. “Out of India?” or a difficult “Passage from India” that is the question.

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