Wearing sunglasses on high altitude treks helps you protect your eyes from sun exposure. In extreme scenarios like trekking on snow, the sun’s rays can accumulate, reflect and damage your vision. Although this damage is temporary, the recovery phase might take upto 48 hours, and between this, the harm is already done: Your trek is...Read More
Sun is harsh at high altitudes. And if exposure to the sun is combined with snow, glacier and ice, the recipe is a serious invitation for snow blindness. Snowblindness is medically known as photokeratitis—“photo” means “light”, and “keratitis” is “inflammation of the cornea”. Need not worry; snow blindness is not permanent. The person generally recovers...Read More
