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.
Tsring Dorze, Bhoti Master in his potato field. Near Keylong. He, like many Lahaulis, was a potato connoisseur, I took him some Golden Wonder potatoes seed form Scotland and they grew well; perhaps these are Golden Wonders.
Staircase to the roof level in a Lahauli house. A ‘jharu’, a sack of potatoes, and a goat-hair woven mat under the roof. Traditionally built houses in the background.
Woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, child’s cap decorated with cowrie shell.
Ladakhi woman wearing traditional headdress with turquoises & a cloak of sheep or goat skin. Child in basket on her back, wearing traditional child’s cap with cowrie shell.
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.
