Mishap on the last day of field training

It had been snowing daily and this led to a change in our training program. We went ferrying loads up to advance base camp, with a program to come back to base camp and then to move up the next day to stay at ABC for height gain. As we reached back from ABC after dropping off the load, we got news that due to avalanches on all sides into the area where ABC was situated and also on the draupadi ka danda face, advanced course has had to abandon their attempt to summit the peak and are coming back. We were also told that the height gain on this face was now not possible and we have to go back to ABC to ferry the stuff back to base camp. Thereafter, a reconnaissance on the alternate peak revealed that the gully through which this peak was approached, is also blocked with avalanches.

Finally it was decided to start back 2 days ahead of schedule, after navigation and the exam. This was a let down for most of us but we reconciled to it and went for our last day of snow craft.

After self and group arrest was successfully completed, we were told to wind up. The guys started horsing around, glissading down the slopes making a sitting train in which each guy sat behind the other with splayed legs and the guy in front held the legs of the person behind him. We did this once and the second time we tried it, the train hit a bump in the ice and overturned, coming to a stop. Due to momentum, I went sprawling into the snow while my leg was in the hand of the guy in front. My knee got twisted at an awkward angle and there was a lot of pain as I writhed in the snow. It was a painful and slow walk in falling snow, back across the 2 moraines with 2-3 fellow trainees, my instructor and MR. Jha, the medical assistant, escorting and supporting me. My instructor, Mr. Saklani went ahead to call for a stretcher and porters and although I could limp across the moraines onto the flat fround leading to the camping area, I was loaded onto the stretcher and brought to the camp. After I received some flak from the VP, the doctor had a look at it, while Jha babu administered an injection. The consensus was that it was a ligament injury and as I could put load on the foot keeping the knee straight, I can have a day's rest and walk down to the road head.