Six walks from the door
Forty minutes to eight hours. Elevation and water points on laminated cards in the hall, because Deepak's verbal directions were incomprehensible.
Sixty frames
Almost none of these were taken by a professional. This is what a phone and an early start will get you here.
The valley
Landscape
Twelve frames of the ridgeline, the peaks and the light, across four seasons. Click any one to open it full size with the date and conditions.
The forest starts four minutes from the door and the signal stops two hundred metres in.
Forest and water
Into the trees, sideways
Banj oak, chir pine, buransh above two thousand metres, and water everywhere from June to October.
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The house
Inside
Four rooms, a courtyard, a veranda and a kitchen that does not close.
The Valley Room
Two windows, both northRebuilt from its own stone
The Cottage was a byre until the 2013 rains brought its wall down. Four men from this lane put it back up over five months in 2021, using the stone that had fallen.
The courtyard
A cow, a dog, a walnut tree1940The year the ground floor went up
Lit at four
October to March
Pankhi wool
Bhagwati's loom
Best light at 3 pm
Six chairs, one tableThe village
Life on the lane
Photographs taken with permission, which we ask you to do too. Faces, houses, and anything inside a temple.
Detail
The parts nobody photographs
Window catches, wool, steam, the particular corner of the veranda where the light lands at four.
None of it photographs as well as it looks
That is not false modesty. The valley is difficult to shoot and easy to be in. Three nights is enough to understand the difference.