The Pindari Valley is served by an excellent path which was built over the Dhakuri pass in the 1830’s under the direction of George William Trail, the British Commissioner of the Kumaon district from 1816 – 1836. Trail hoped to establish the Pindari Kanda, the glacier pass linking the Pindari and Gori valleys, as part of a trade route from Almora to Tibet. Trail entrusted the job of pioneering the pass to a local man, Malik Singh Buda. In 1830 Malik Singh achieved the crossing, but due to glacial recession Trail’s Pass has since become an increasingly difficult and dangerous proposition. The Pindari Glacier is today a chaotic 1000-meter icefall and the lower slopes of Nanda Khat to its west. However the trail to the Pindari Glacier remains as a 2 meter cobbled path and provides a fine trekking route from the present road head at Song to the snout of the glacier, a distance of 45 km, which normally takes 3 day.