KALA AGAR & CHOWGARH

Deep in the oak and rhododendron forests of eastern Kumaon. The Chowgarh Tigers — a mother-and-cub pair — were responsible for over 64 deaths. Corbett spent months here in a point-blank encounter he described as among the most dangerous of his life. The Kala Agar Forest Rest House, where he based himself, still stands — a colonial-era structure frozen in time. Village elders in Chowgarh still pass down oral histories of the Gora Sadhu (the White Sadhu) who walked these forests and saved their ancestors.