Photo of the day – staying above the fray
We got back to Delhi last night, trading the crisp clean Himalayan air and glorious vistas of mountains for Delhi. And awful traffic. And a heck of a lot of …
Category: Photo of the day
Arise Sir Tom
Best image from an otherwise gloomy day in which the Coronavirus count topped 14 million world-wide, with 1 million cases here in India. A lovely 100-year-old man who raised £33 …
Photo of the day
Nope. Not what you think. Not a photo from today’s country-wide protests, here in India. Today my thoughts turn to Macau. “Why?” do I hear you ask? Well, because this …
My photo of the day “…Vindhya Himachala Yamuna Ganga …”
…goes one of the lines of the Indian national anthem, and can be translated roughly as: “(the name)…echoes in the hills of the Vindhyas and Himalayas, Mingles in the music …
“Mountains are the cathedrals where I practice my religion”
When you look at an image like this from our Chadar Trek last week, the words of the late Anatoli Boukreev make such perfect sense: “Mountains are the cathedrals where …
Photo of the day – I have NO idea
As in NO idea why anyone would choose to take a dip in glacial water, at altitude, in the Himalayas, in the winter, in temperatures of -15C…but hey, there’s no …