[Resolved]  Indiahikes.in — Indiahikes allowing having drugs in the trek, jeopardising the safety of the trek in extreme weather

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This is with respect to smoking and having weed in Buran Ghati trek on 25th September trek.
Indiahikes team identified 2 people smoking on day 1 of the trek. Ideally they should be sent down as per strict guidelines of Indiahikes and considering the safety of participants that it will be impacting in trek and its safety. But they decided to take them ahead with the trek.
On every passing day more number of participants started joining them and a day before pass of Buranghati trek leader Manthan caught 13 people having weed (having weed is illegal in India). The weed was provided by Indiahikes guide Anil to the participants. Even after catching the participants the trek leader took the call to send the participants down, but the next day all of the participants joined us as early as 4 AM - jeopardising the safety of all the trekker.
At the height of 15, 000 feet their can be many medical consequences of this situation - in the extremity it can be fatal as well.
The senior leader like Dushyant allowed it, that's a bigger shame.
On the top of that when I informed about this experience to Rutuja the trek experience leader she did not even bothered to call me or check on the details. Then when I posted a comment talking about it in their YouTube video that's when they started taking all the actions. They call themself as the safest trekking organization - I have done 7 expeditions before this - in none of them I faced such a situation.
As a part of compensation for hampering my trekking experience and not taking safety seriously I am requesting full refund for me and my wife - it includes trek cost, offloading cost and amount paid for separate tent.
This is step one, if you are not fulfilling the request I won't mind sharing this experience in more open forums and public domain with a blog.
I already had a travel blog - I am well connected to the travel bloggers. If you don't believe below links you can refer.
https://sanketthodge.blogspot.com/
https://www.tripoto.com/profile/sanketthodge-1630
https://www.holidify.com/pages/top-travel-bloggers-india-1683.html
https://www.hellotravel.com/stories/top-adventurous-backpackers-who-blog
http://www.365hops.com/blog/sandhan-valley-photo-blog/