Miyar: View of the now unused path on the other side of Miyar Gorge.
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Jalma: Willows by the roadside and horse with pack saddle.
Jalma: Willows by the roadside with a bus.
An ‘arak’ still by the path and a vegetable garden.
Miyar: Urgos, school children, view up the valley beyond, Nawang Tsring, Madan, and others.
Miyar: Urgos, grass cutters, note the goat hair rope with willow hasps to carry the hay bundle.
Miyar: Urgos, grass cutters, Madan’s mother and father in the center.
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Miyar: Upvalley from Urgos, ‘Jhula’ box and its ‘pier’.
Miyar: Tchaling, double tree trunk staircase to verandah.
Miyar: Above Tchaling, large yak on a rope.
Miyar: Urgos, view up the valley, sunrise.
Miyar: Above Tchaling, my tent, looking down with Urgos village in the background.
Miyar: At cricket camp – from my tent, early morning.
Miyar: Looking up the valley from cricket camp.
Miyar: Urgos, woman and haystack on the roof.
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Urgos: Children on the way to school, roof with ‘kilta’, etc., house with haystacks on the roof.
Urgos: School children and other people, view up the valley.
Cattle grazing above cricket camp, view of peaks at the head of the valley and wall of the cricket pitch boundary.
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My tent and kitchen tent at a cricket camp.
Madan at the kitchen, cricket camp.
Miyar cricket camp: Madan and two others with the camp kitchen.
Looking far up the valley from above cricket camp, hay gatherers heading home.
Views from cricket camp, very good, can be viewed contiguously. Notice path across the moraine.
Cover of West Himalayas brochure. The photo is Miyar, a Gaddi summer camp at Gompa, above Thanpattan. Goats and sheep. The young shepherd is churning ‘lassi’ for ghi, in a sheepskin.
Side A: Two sides of a document. A photocopy of a route map of the Western Himalayas, published by Surveyor General of India in 1907. Difficult to read. You can make out what John Keay and I intended to be our route between Simla and Srinagar, but it would not have been realistic to try to follow the route by this map.
On Side B
(7.17) there are some details of contacts and addresses, we hoped that some of our important contacts – Lalit Sen, Raja of Suket and a congress stalwart, and Ahok Nehru son of BK Nehru were going to help us gain permit to cross the ‘Inner Line’ into Lahaul. It didn’t happen.
Miyar: Gaddi’s pack with blanket and goat-hair woven rope.
Miyar: CCN with her camera these days, a phone.
