On the first evening of the Wilderness Training Program at Vanghat Lodge in Corbett, as the final participants were en route through the twisty forest path, the Great Hornbills began their daily flight from one hill top to the other, to their roosting spot for the night. In the golden evening glow they glided past us, mere metres from the lodge. This was as refreshing a greeting as Vanghat’s special nimbu paani, served on arrival after the exhilarating trek to the lodge. A pied kingfisher sits on driftwood, near the river.Despite the recent floods in Uttarakhand, Vanghat was thankfully mostly unaffected, with the only difficulty lying in the swollen…