Off the Beaten Track .....and far from the madding crowd

  Frank Smythe was the man  who  identified a region that he named the "Valley of Flowers" , now a protected park.  He once said: ...

A sign at the Entrance to the Valley of Flowers (VoF) says it all The passionate forest guard at the gate told me that he had been scolde...

The Spectacular beauty of the mountains Every muscle is straining after six hours of ascent, at 3700 metres my oxygen deprived lu...

Valley of Flowers and Hemkund -a Trek to Paradise The Valley of Flowers     Climbing the last kilometer is strenuous, I sw...