Kranti walking on the unstable track through the gorge into Miyar, the only way in at the time.
Young shepherds who have gone down to the shops in Udaipur or Karpat. They have just crossed the bridge from Karpat and are now carrying the rations they bought up to the summer camp. They wear chola, dora, and fine leather shoes with floral decoration. The boy on the left has something valuable attached by a chain to his ‘dora’. Note sheep skin sacks and goat hair rope.
Mangal Singh, Rahul, and Tara at a West Himalayan Holidays camp. Tara pretending to smoke a ‘biri’.
Miyar at Thanpattan left to right Kullu Lama, Mangal Singh, Madan Tara, Topchen, and the yak they caught.
Gyal Chand, pony man at the West Himalayan Holidays campsite below Tchaling. Urgos village is visible on the other side of the valley.
Gaddis’ dwelling house at summer grazing in the upper Miyar Valley. On arrival, they would sometimes find dry dung for fuel stored away from when they left in the autumn. See foreground.
Madan and Rahul on a pony on their way up to the Thanpattan camp. View of snow peaks at the head of the valley.
Gaddi ponies with sacks of wool or fodder, background snowy mountains.
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Miyar: Yak, image not great.
Miyar: A copious stack of firewood, birch tree trunks, precious in Miyar.
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Miyar: Views from cricket camp, can be viewed contiguously. Notice the cultivated fields.
Miyar: Views from cricket camp, can be viewed contiguously.
Miyar: Solar panels in the window of a shop.
Miyar: Solar panels in the window of a shop.
Urgos: My tent was pitched on the roof of a house opposite Madan’s, view up the valley through the tent door.
Urgos: My tent was pitched on the roof of a house opposite Madan’s, view up the valley through the tent door.
Urgos: My tent was pitched on the roof of a house opposite Madan’s, view up the valley with the tent.
Urgos: My tent was pitched on the roof of a house opposite Madan’s, view up the valley with the tent.
Urgos: Showing Amarnath’s house on the corner.
Urgos: Showing Amarnath’s house on the corner.
Urgos: Staircase from the public path to the roof storing hay. There is a bundle of hay being carried along the path below.
Urgos: Staircase from the public path to the roof storing hay. There is a bundle of hay being carried along the path below.
Urgos: Firewood store, hay being carried along the path, a corner of the house built of stone, and domestic items on the roof.
Urgos: Firewood store, hay being carried along the path, a corner of the house built of stone, and domestic items on the roof.
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Urgos: Girl on the roof with a bundle of hay, the view up the valley.
Urgos: Two girls with hay on the roof.
Urgos: Two girls with hay on the roof.
Urgos: Details of one girl carrying hay on her shoulders, with steps next to the haystack.
Urgos: Details of one girl carrying hay on her shoulders, with steps next to the haystack.
Urgos: Girl on the roof with a satellite dish.
Urgos: Girl on the roof with a satellite dish.
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Miyar: ‘Chorten’ – a Buddhist monument, often marking the way into a village, newly painted.
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Young boy and large vessel near the tap.
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The force of the river in flood has burst the wire mesh constructed to hold the protective wall in place.
The force of the river in flood has burst the wire mesh constructed to hold the protective wall in place.
Offerings and prayers cut into stone placed at the base of the ‘chorten’.
Offerings and prayers cut into stone placed at the base of the ‘chorten’.
Offerings and prayers cut into stone placed at the base of the ‘chorten’, men carrying a large stone.
Offerings and prayers cut into stone placed at the base of the ‘chorten’, men carrying a large stone.
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