From the Himalaya: travels and tall tales. Personal interests: @malayraunsil
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Daboo dug the pit and I shoveled the dirt and from time to time we looked up at the terrifying expanse above us, ridges sharp as knapped obsidian trying in vain to puncture the skies, the glacial air rushing into our worn jackets, the sand smarting in our eyes.
September 2026.
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3 September 1931 — Horsemen of the Citroën Trans-Asiatic Expedition crossing the snow-covered Kilik Pass, at approximately 4,830 metres, from the Hunza frontier into Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang).
#Hunza #KilikPass #Kashmir #Karakoram #Himalayas #Hindukush #Pamir #MintikaPass
The First Trans #Himalayan Drive 1931
Well the first instance of the crossing of the Great Himalayan Range by a Motorized Vehicle was in 1931 when a couple of Citroen Half Tracks actually went all the way from #Srinagar to #Hunza and beyond to Upper Hunza over the #Kilik Pass
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Occasionally I turn over a bundle of manuscript or an old proof-copy of a novel or book of poems with disgusted inattention — with sadness, like someone studying an old passport.
— Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet (1957-1960)
LD's Passport (1935)
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Somewhere in the Eastern Himalaya. May 2026.
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A condensed pilgrimage, choppy seas and high passes all rolled into one...
This was the most interesting flu I had, very enlightening, adventurous. Opened quite a few doors for me. I hate how woo I'm sounding about it, but I look back at it not without some fondness.
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Cornwall and Wales are dotted over with hundreds of ancient holy wells and springs, many of them far older than Christianity in those isles. Now dedicated to local saints, some of them were in use in the Bronze Age, and were thought to hold healing and oracular powers.
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Katsuta Shōkin (1879–1963), a Japanese Nihonga painter, came to India in 1905 at Rabindranath Tagore’s invitation.
He taught Japanese painting to the Tagore family at Jorasanko, and influenced Abanindranath Tagore and other artists of the Bengal School.
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Utah's color palette has been absolutely stunning this fall
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