Landour / Mussoorie, Uttaranchal, India ... home to Woodstock School, which you can't see here
Packing up the taxis for the ride down to Dehra Dun, where we would switch to jeeps (it was a union thing).
Yum!
Old British building in Simla.
The whole group at lunch. Coke in 300ml bottles. Dal & roti.
First look at the snows.
How to build on the hillside.
Typical four-lane road.
A lovely steel bridge put up by the Indian Army in 1999 (I think) after the Sutlej flooded and destroyed the old bridge.
Awesome roads.
Happy Hindi ceremony.
More nice road.
Cooks Gobind Lal, Mohun, and Mohun waiting for tea.
Checking our drivers' permits.
First camping breakfast, near Rakcham.
Not a bad place to be. The roofs are the village of Chitkul.
A Chitkul woman weaving a sheet.
It was threshing day when we got to Chitkul, so Jeff (red shirt) helped out.
First morning, the tents not down yet.
Filtering water: it's how to pick up the ladies.
Chitkul, new and old.
Typical house, with staircase to the attic / hay storage.
Older, weathered temple buildings.
Looking down the valley from our campsite; Chitkul just visible.
Yeah, it was cold every morning.
Vrennie helping Gobind make alu parathas (greasy chapatis filled with spicy potatos)
Our fearless leader, Laurie East.
Snowy day hike up a side valley. Lots of rhododendron.
Water break.
This shot's for the tabloids.
As far as we got that day (about 13,000ft / 4000m).
Sunset, and cold, coming fast at 5pm
Annie and Anna chasing the cows through the camp.
Andy was your typical level-headed Brit.
A view up-river from Chitkul; a bottom, the bridge we crossed; our campsite is about dead-center.
View from the top (well, not quite) of the Sharang La (Pass). I didn't make it this far, but still hit 15,000ft / 4500m.
Not the way up, but very like it.
Dawn on the last day; it had snowed overnight.
More snow.
Packing up & trying to look tough.
Official population: 610; we added 13.
Me & my uncle, and some mountains.
Wooden bridge.
One of our pan-chewing drivers.