Amarnath Yatra begins as pilgrims set out from Baltal, Nunwan base camps   

  The yatra started aboriginal greeting from the duplicate tracks -- the accepted 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam way and the 14-km Baltal route

Anantnag: The archetypal batch of pilgrims arrives astatine the Nunwan basal campy astatine Pahalgam, for the yearly ‘Amarnath Yatra’, successful Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir, Wednesday, July 2, 2025. (PTI Photo) (PTI07_02_2025_000181B)

The yearly Amarnath Yatra began connected Thursday with the archetypal batches of pilgrims mounting disconnected from the duplicate basal camps successful Baltal and Nunwan towards the 3880-metre-high cave shrine successful the southbound Kashmir Himalayas, which houses a people formed ice-lingam, officials said.

The yatra started aboriginal greeting from the duplicate tracks -- the accepted 48-km Nunwan-Pahalgam way and the 14-km Baltal route.

The batches of pilgrims, including men, women and sadhus, near from the Nunwan basal campy successful Pahalgam, successful southbound Kashmir's Anantnag, and Baltal basal campy successful Sonamarg country of cardinal Kashmir's Ganderbal astatine the archetypal airy of the day, the officials said.

The chants of 'bum bum bole' filled the aerial arsenic the batches were flagged disconnected by elder officials from the respective basal camps, they added.

On Wednesday, the archetypal batch of 5,892 yatris was flagged disconnected from the yatra basal campy successful Jammu's Bhagwati Nagar by Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha.

The pilgrims reached the Kashmir Valley successful the day and received a rousing invited from the medication and locals.

They volition wage obeisance astatine the cave shrine, which houses the people occurring ice-lingam formation.

Stringent information arrangements person been enactment successful spot for the creaseless behaviour of the yatra.

Thousands of information unit from the police, Central Reserve Police Force, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and different paramilitary forces person been deployed to guarantee security. Aerial surveillance volition besides beryllium carried out.

The 38-day pilgrimage volition reason connected August 9.