evidence: Hotigad is a major water obstacle in the area during the monsoons and divides the Barahoti plains into two parts which is connected by a motorable road from Raiwala through Rudraprayag, Joshimath, Malari, Sumna up to Rimkim, the road head is about 8 kilometres from the LAC. Barahoti has traditionally been a camping ground for traders going to different trading centres of Tibet, like Gyanima Mandi, Gartok Mandi, etc, from the Chamoli district of Garhwal. While this was not actually a trading centre but more of a transit point for traders crossing over to Tibet, there were a few instances when a trade-mart was established there due to a breakout of an epidemic among the livestock in the markets of Tibet in 1866-1867. Thus, it was used only as an alternative to Tibetans (not Chinese) at a time when close ties existed between the people of India and sovereign Tibet. Traditionally, the locals who graze their livestock in this area knew this area as the Hoti plains. A temple near a natural spring in Barahoti, named Parvati Kund, is considered as a holy place by the local graziers.