We were hopeful after looking at the blues in the sky that the weather would be fine the next day. But the grey dominated and it was snowed out the next day. This image was taken at Talhauti in Uttarakhand Himalayas while I was trekking in the region in early June. Please visit the Skywatch page for…
Author: Mridula Dwivedi
Mother and Daughter at Dhunda
The mother and daughter visited our campsite at Dhunda in search of medicines. It is very common on a trek to be requested for medicines by Gujjars. I don’t know why the people living high up the mountains are called Gujjars. They have nomadic lifestyle, they build temporary shelters and move with their livestock to…
Lazing Around in a Red Tent on a Snowed Out Day
If you peer hard you can see three men peaking out of the tent. This was the only day on the trek when the support team took it easy. We all knew that the trek was over, the mountains had decided that we shall not pass!
The Mountain Men
I clicked this picture of our support team at Dhundi campsite (I typed website instead of campsite and then deleted it!). This time our effort was to climb up to a lake called Saru Tal but that was not to be. We had to turn back because for our skills the weather was too inclement at…
My Complete Rafting Story Now Up at Gonomad
My complete rafting article is now up at Gonomad. There were seven rafts in all from our camp and here is what happened at ‘The Wall.’ And then we saw the raft in front of us! It had flipped and everyone was thrown out in the water. We turned back, there was another raft and…
Total Lunar Eclipse, June 15-16, 2011, Gurgaon, India
I decided to add this post to the Skywatch Friday as well. You cannot imagine how much I sweated to click even these pictures, my zoom lens needs servicing and it had to happen when one of the biggest phenomenons had to occur in the sky. Zoom lens acting funny or not I had…
Summer Anyone?
This is not our idea of summer for sure but for some even summer means snow! I clicked this picture in the first week of June at Talhauti in Uttarakhand. I am entering this for the photo of the month contest with Mahendra Homestays. Psst there theme is summer!