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Lahaul

+ Year

1967

+ Keyword

Architecture, Transport

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0.3.1

Rest House near Jim Corbet Park, UP. The Morris Traveller, we called ‘jewel of the East’, parked in front, Kranti Singh reading on left of picture while men clean the chairs.

+ Region

Kullu

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.1.14

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.

+ Region

Kullu

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.1.18

Kullu. As for 1.1.18 the Largi Mandi gorge road.

+ Region

Miyar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Transport, Trekking

+ Ref. ID

1.4.33

Kranti walking on the unstable track through the gorge into Miyar, the only way in at the time.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.4.34

Bridge over the Chandrabhaga on the way to Triloknath. Image may be reversed.

+ Region

Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.6.10

Leh bazaar. Jeep taxis.

+ Region

Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.6.14

A yak near Kurgiakhkh with mountains behind it & track across the hill.

+ Region

Ladakh

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Clothes, Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.6.9

Leh bazaar. Jeeps to hire as taxis. Two women in traditional clothes, one with child on her back. Poster for a Hindi movie.

+ Region

High Altitude

+ Year

1972

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.15.3

Kullu, Jagatsukh nala, making a bridge, trekker Jeremy Phipps, later a Major General.

+ Region

Sainj

+ Year

1971

+ Keyword

Temple, Transport

+ Ref. ID

1.16.11

Sainj valley. Sainsher Mahadev temple. Penelope Betjeman with pony.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

1977

+ Keyword

Transport, Work

+ Ref. ID

2.7.5a

Miyar: Workers on the road through the gorge.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Pony, Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.17.28A

On the way to the Phitse-La. Johnny Noble & Kranti Singh on a pony.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.19.24

Johnny riding a pony along the left bank of the Phitse-Chu. Somewhere along here we saw a yak which had lost its footing and was being swirled along in the river. We were not encouraged.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.19.25

Zanskar. Johnny on a bridge. In August 1975, my brother Johnny Noble, Kranti & I went to Zanskar (I was 3 or 4 months pregnant with Rahul). Chamba & Dorze, both Zanskaris, came with us. We went via the Baralacha-La (Pass), 16,000 ft & the Phitse-La, 17,000 ft. We camped at Testha village, home to Dorze & his wife. And then after Padam on (Zanskar HQ) to Karsha village, home to Chamba. After that we crossed the Pensi La & left Zanskar via Kargil town & on to Kashmir.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.19.30

Rope bridge across the Phitse-Chu. We are trekking along the left bank.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Customs, Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.19.35

Below Karsha village. Chamba being greeted by his mother, it was some time since he had come home. Kranti and pony in foreground..

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.21.23A

A bridge on the way to the Pensi La Pass.

+ Region

Zanskar

+ Year

1975

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.21.28

Christina riding towards the Pensi La Pass on the way to Kargil.

+ Region

Pangi

+ Year

1974

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

2.23.16

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.

+ Region

Kullu Valley

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.5.37A

Bhunter bazaar. Spring on our the way home from Chandigarh to Manali, Dorze, Tara ,Kranti our jeep.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.10.4

Goats crossing Rothang Pass into Lahaul, spring migration, June.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.10.5

Lahaul side of Rothang Pass. Shepherd and carrying firewood with flocks on spring migration June, the twin peaks of Mount Geyphang in background.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.12A.17A

Pack sheep coming down from Sach Pass. Spring migration. From Chamba side to Chandrabhaga Valley.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.12A.18A

Pack sheep coming down from Sach Pass. Spring migration. From Chamba side to Chandrabhaga Valley.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.12A.19A

Pack sheep coming down from Sach Pass. Spring migration. From Chamba side to Chandrabhaga Valley.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1979

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

3.12A.20A

Pack sheep coming down from Sach Pass. Spring migration. From Chamba side to Chandrabhaga Valley.

+ Region

High Altitude

+ Year

1982

+ Keyword

Landscape, Transport, Work

+ Ref. ID

4.13.9A

Ravi Valley on the way to Holi. West Himalayan Holiday porters crossing the Ravi river.

+ Region

Gaddis

+ Year

1971

+ Keyword

Clothes, Customs, Transport

+ Ref. ID

4.14.37

Gaddi man with a heavy pack and blankets, and two children coming up to the Jalsu Pass. Note: the Gaddis carry their children horizontally on their backs.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

1984

+ Keyword

Transport, Trekking

+ Ref. ID

4.22.25

Miyar: Mangal Singh and Tara on a pony, trekking up the valley.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

1985

+ Keyword

Transport, Trekking

+ Ref. ID

4.25.4

Miyar: Madan and Rahul on a pony, trekking.

+ Region

Kangra & Kangra Valley

+ Year

1985

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

4.29.12A

Jawalamurkhi bus stand under the pipul tree. Jawalamurkhi temple with an eternal flame emanating from the rock is a crowded pilgrimage site.

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1986

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

5.1.13

On the way to Manikaran. Two boys racing their trolleys.

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1986

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

5.1.23

Kasol, several people crossing the bridge over the Parbatti river

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1986

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

5.1.24

Kasol, people on the bridge over the Parbatti river

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1986

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

5.1.26

Kasol, 3 men waving as they cross the bridge over the Parbatti.

+ Region

Manikaran & Kasol

+ Year

1986

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

5.4.2

On the road to Manikaran, two Sikh men, pilgrims?

+ Region

Simla

+ Year

1988

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

5.7.27

The Viceroy’s railcar. This is 1988 Kranti, Rahul, Tara and I went for a trip. They are peering from the driver’s window.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

2003

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Transport

+ Ref. ID

6.2.32

Jalma: Willows by the roadside and horse with pack saddle.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

2003

+ Keyword

Agriculture, Transport

+ Ref. ID

6.2.33

Jalma: Willows by the roadside with a bus.

+ Region

Lahaul

+ Year

2003

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

6.3.23

Miyar: Upvalley from Urgos, ‘Jhula’ box and its ‘pier’.

+ Region

Miyar

+ Year

2003

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

6.5.4

The force of the river in flood has burst the wire mesh constructed to hold the protective wall in place.

+ Region

Miyar

+ Year

2003

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

6.5.4

The force of the river in flood has burst the wire mesh constructed to hold the protective wall in place.

+ Region

Kullu Valley

+ Year

1976

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

7.12

Not Christina’s photo. The Kullu -Mandi gorge Road 1976.

+ Region

Kullu Valley

+ Year

1977

+ Keyword

Transport

+ Ref. ID

7.13

Not Christina’s photo. Kullu-Mandi gorge.
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