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

  “The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were hi...

"Beyond the mountains, more mountains.” —Haitian proverb   Trishul wreathed in clouds The local village people do not climb for a view....

  Pangoot Post Office ‘A rose by any name smells just as sweet’, so does Pangoot/Pangot.  The locals call it Pangoot whereas at many places ...

  The rays of the sun illuminate Trishul and Nanda Devi.  I could see peaks to the left and right of this massif. Maybe it was so destined a...

Start of the path to Joshi's Cottage.  It is two Kilometers from here Lemmings all, multitudes of tired, over-civilised people feel that...