Kullu. The Largi-Mandi gorge road. In the 1970s this section of the road was often blocked, sometimes involving ‘trans-shipment’- walking across the block to a bus waiting the other side, you hoped.
Kullu. As for 1.1.18 the Largi Mandi gorge road.
Kot temple, carved panels. Peacock and tiger head protruding form the end of the ridge pole.
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Udaipur. Mirkula temple detail of the very fine wood carving of scenes from the Mahabharata
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Tsring Dorze, Bhoti Master in his potato field. Near Keylong. He, like many Lahaulis, was a potato connoisseur, I took him some Golden Wonder potatoes seed form Scotland and they grew well; perhaps these are Golden Wonders.
Women and child near Jispa.
Girls on a bus. The coat/dress is called ‘cholu’ in Miyar. In Lahaul it is called ‘katter’
Boy in traditional tweed coat
House near Keylong. Note the verandah.
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Looking back down into the Bhaga Valley, on the way to the Baralacha Pass.
Looking up towards the Baralacha La (Pass). Christina & Tsring Dorze (Bhoti master).
Staircase to the roof level in a Lahauli house. A ‘jharu’, a sack of potatoes, and a goat-hair woven mat under the roof. Traditionally built houses in the background.
Tsring Dorze’s wife. Making buckwheat pancakes, in their house near Keylong.
Lahaul summer. Elderly shepherd with dogs, near Jispa.
Jispa, portrait of a boy in a hat.
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A yak near Kurgiakhkh with mountains behind it & track across the hill.
Ladakhi woman cleaning barley. Wearing wool cloak & amber necklace.
Detail of two boys, one in jacket, the other in a gown. The latter is holding a board for school lessons.
Woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, child’s cap decorated with cowrie shell.
Ladakhi woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, wearing traditional child’s cap with cowrie shell.
Nagin Lake. Kashmir. Christina with Major, houseboat owner, and all his family
Chorten, with Tikse gompa (monastery) on the hill behind.
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Houses. Buddhist shrine on the left. Hay drying in yard. A layer of furze on the roof. High snowy mountains in background.
Leh bazaar. Jeeps to hire as taxis. Two women in traditional clothes, one with child on her back. Poster for a Hindi movie.
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Christina Noble crossing the Chandrabhaga in a ‘jhula’. The first bit is OK, you come whooshing down, but then it stops and you hang over the raging torrent until someone begins to pull you, slowly, up the other side.
