The last time CRPF soldier VV Vasanth Kumar called his home in Kerala's Wayanad was on the morning of Thursday, while he and his colleagues were travelling from Jammu to Srinagar as part of a 78-vehicle convoy. "At 10 am, Vasanth sent me pictures of dew and mist everywhere. He then called to say that they would take four to five hours to reach their destination. Our conversation ended there," recalls Sheena B, his wife. She tried calling Vasanth Kumar again a few hours later, but dead silence was all she got.