{"id":400,"date":"2019-07-25T16:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photrek.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=400"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:54:48","slug":"phototrekker-presentations-no-place-for-men","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.photrek.co.uk\/?page_id=400","title":{"rendered":"Phototrekker Presentations: ‘No Place For Men’ – Travels in the Far North of India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Remote Lands of Spiti & Nubra. (Northern India 2006, 2009 & 2011 )<\/strong>
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Looking to the Mountains : Spiti valley, July 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At last they entered a world within a world – a valley of leagues where the high hills were fashioned of mere rubble and refuse from off the knees of the mountains. … ‘Surely the Gods live here!’ said Kim, beaten down by the silence and the appalling sweep and dispersal of the cloud-shadows after rain, ‘this is no place for men!’ <\/strong>
Rudyard Kipling – Kim <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We tend to think of India as being a land of \u2018richness\u2019 – the splendours of the Taj Mahal and the palaces of Rajasthan; the tea plantations of Assam; the rich plains of  the Punjab;  the \u2018Relics of the Raj\u2019 of Delhi & Calcutta.. There is, though, another  India, one which even now comparatively few visitors travel to – the remote borderlands of the Northwest, bordering on Tibet & Sinkiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first visited the \nnorthern region of Ladakh in September 1990 – a remote Buddhist area \nnestling against the border with the Sinkiang region of China. In those \ndays comparatively few people visited the area. There was a limited \nsystem of roads into the country and just a few flights. Nowadays this \nis a much more visited area with regular flights into Leh, the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018No place for Men’ tells the story of two visits to the area. In 2006 I  visited  the remote Nubra valley and the \u2018vastness\u2019 of the \u2018Changtang\u2019 region, leading to the spectacular Pangong Lake. The lake which lies at an altitude of 14,000′ is 83 miles long, but only just over three miles broad at its widest part. Before we visit Nubra we spend time in the strange land of Spiti – a land of greys and browns but with areas of cultivation and a population that follows a \u2018pure\u2019 form of Buddhism. This is a strange & mystic land, nestling against the Tibetan border and  completely different  from most expectations of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two areas are some \ndistance apart – the only way for us to travel between them is the \nspectacular mountain highway that runs from Manali in the Kulu valley to\n Leh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No trip to Northern \nIndia is complete without a visit to Delhi and, in this case, to Shimla –\n the old \u2018Summer Capital\u2019 of the Raj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018No place for men\u2019 is the story of two visits to these areas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dhankhar Monastery: June 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n


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