Gulmarg this year

You can see Nanga Parbat in the background. 

Sindhu

First glimpse of the mighty Indus. In this picture it is flowing in from Ladakh and onward to Pakistan. This was from the Kargil-Batalik road, a slight diversion from the regular Kargil-Leh highway. We drove along the river for an entire day. I cant begin to explain how mysterious those landscapes are.

Finally after two hours of driving along the Indus we found a spot where we could stop and sit by the river for a while. Sindhu, your name has a new meaning for me now.

Picturesqueness, now fleeting

It's so difficult to find a way to capture things in the mountains when you imagine that you're going to want to remember everything right as it was back there. I remembered that issue of Richie Rich which had something called a Smell-o-Vision that Prof. Keenbeen makes. So until I figure out how to bring to you two the smells and the goosebumps on skin in these freezing, sub-zero places I saw, here's some scenery and cloudery. This is shot on my way from Manjhi to Agoda, both in Uttarakhand. I never tire of the Garhwali lanscape, though next time, I hope to travel to a new part of the Himalayas.