Ravi Valley. On the glacier, where we found the lamb, below the Kali Hind Pass, 15,000 ft. The Barabangahal side. The first trek. Good detail of the gaddi’s tweed chola and tweed hat.
Below the Kali Hind Pass, Bara Bangahal (side). Shepherd wearing ‘chola’ and wool cap, with lamb in his lap. John Keay and I, on our first trek Shimla to Sringar, had found it high on the pass and brought it down. He was climbing up looking for it. This and its companion photo of same man looking through our binoculars, have became well regarded.
Camp site on a ridge above Lambadukh, below Kali Hind Pass. Chamba, Tanjin and Sonam. This was John Keay and my first trek, from ‘Shimla to Srinagar’ . We had been were held up trying to get a permit to pass The Inner Line into Lahaul. Ultimately unsuccessful, so we had to go via Barabangahal, Kukti, Bramour, Chamba, and Kilar.
Campsite below Kali Hind Pass. August. The first trek. Tanjin, in silhouette, a Nepali, Chamba and Sonam. Chapattis being made. The kitchen has no shelter nor roof. Large biscuit tin often used for packing rations.
Camp site below Nikori Pass, 15,000 ft., above Bara Bangahal. Chamba, Tanjin, and Sonam, on the way to Kukti village on our first trek.
Side B: Two sides of a document. 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 did n’t happen.
Side A (7.16) is 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.
Side A (7.16) is 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.
‘In Grandmother’s Footsteps’ an article illustrated with my photographs , in Welcome Aboard, BOAC’s on board magazine. I’m in the illustrious company of James Morris and Delia Smith. ‘CCN Noble and John Keay do what their ancestors did – trek with some heroism, in the Himalayan foothills and then compare notes with them’