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Two Bodies, One Soul Glimpses of the and the Himalayas

23-26 June 2016 / Convention Foyer, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

About the cause

This exhibition of mountain photography opens with the launch of 'Two Bodies, One Soul: Glimpses of the Alps and the Himalayas', a limited edition fundraising series for the Children's National Institute (childrennationalinstitute.org), a home for abandoned and orphaned children established in 1947 by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, at his former residence, Swaraj Bhawan, in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.

Fifty percent of any sale proceeds will go to the Children's National Institute. Any profit that still remains after all expenses have been paid will go to the artist's own research project on reducing disaster risk and supporting community adaptation to extremes in changing Himalayan environments. The project, titled ‘Understanding and enhancing the adaptation and resilience of remote high-mountain communities to hydrometeorological extremes and related geophysical hazards in a changing climate’ is supported by the University of Sheffield, UK, and the Dudley Stamp Memorial Award (Royal Geographical Society with IBG). The project involves extended fieldwork in the High Himalayas.

The artist's new Himalayan music album, 'Poshpoozaa and other ancient prayers from a Kashmiri household' will also be launched at the show. The first 100 signed album CDs will be available at the venue. Any sale proceeds will go to the Children's National Institute or the aforementioned Himalayan disaster risk reduction research project.

About the artist

Vaibhav Kaul is a young Himalayan geographer, mountaineer, photographer, painter, singer, poet and nostalgist. He read Geography at the University of Delhi and Environmental Change and Management as a Felix Scholar at the University of Oxford. He is currently pursuing a Geography doctorate at the University of Sheffield, where he is a Vice Chancellor's Indian Scholar. Vaibhav is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. While living and working in the Himalayas of Ladakh, Lahaul, Garhwal, Kumaon, Nepal, and Sikkim, Vaibhav has photographed hundreds of extraordinary landscapes, each of which tells an enchanting story. His work has previously been seen at the India International Centre (‘The Himalaya: A Timeless Quest’, 2014) and the India Habitat Centre (‘Reverberations from the Himalaya’, 2013; 'Hear Me, O Himalaya!', 2015) in New Delhi, and on web-based knowledge platforms such as the People’s Archive of Rural India (‘Women and their Many Worlds’, 2015) and the American Geophysical Union Blogosphere (‘Kedarnath Debris Flow Disaster’, 2013).

Exhibits

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A01 (4,063 m) and (3,903 m), as seen from near (2,928 m) 9x12 6,000 / ,

A02 The Gorner with its tributaries descending from (4,164 m) 9x12 6,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

A03 / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen from near (3,104 m) 9x12 6,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

A04 Shaka Cho (5,000 m), a proglacial lake dammed precariously behind a at the foot of 9x12 6,000 Kangchengyao (6,889 m) Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“Shaka Cho is very big and deep. I have seen her. She’s sitting in Kangchengyao’s lap, just above our yak pastures. She’s tilting the lap towards us because she wants to leap out and come to us. But, by the grace of Guru Rinpoche, Kangchengyao holds her back. Kangchengyao likes to feed her ice. Every now and then, a huge chunk of ice plunges into the water, making a thunderous sound and sending ripples, even waves, right across the lake. Our wise elders have told us that the benevolent Kangchengyao will hold Shaka Cho in his lap only as long as we maintain an atmosphere of piety… I think Shaka Cho will come down one day, but I can’t say when. What can I do about it anyway? I can only try to be a good man and pray for our well-being… If we are to be killed, clouds will burst and entire mountains will come down with this river and that river. Nothing will remain, only mud and boulders. These roads, bridges, houses and trucks are just toys - they will be wiped out.”

“Kangchengyao has been made so powerful by Guru Rinpoche that he can end war, disease and famine. But if he is not happy with us, he may decide to destroy us. And that is when Shaka Cho will burst… For nearly thirty years, people have been saying that Shaka Cho is about to burst... We are still waiting for that disaster.”

A05 The Kangchendzonga Massif (8,586 m), as seen from Delo (1,670 m) 9x12 6,000 Sikkim Himalayas / Gorkhaland, West Bengal, India

“It’s not Kanchenjunga; it’s Kang-chen-dzo-nga - ‘the great snows of five hidden treasures’!”

B01 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen from the Riffelsee Lake (2,757 m) 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B02 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen from the Riffelsee Lake (2,757 m) 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B03 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen from the Riffelsee Lake (2,757 m) 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B04 Facing the Grenz Glacier, the main feeder of the 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B05 The surface of the Gorner Glacier, which is part of the second largest glacial system in the Alps 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B06 The 12-kilometre-long Gorner Glacier, as seen from near Rotenboden (2,815 m) 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B07 Looking [L-R] towards (3,883 m), Riffelhorn (2,928 m) and Matterhorn 9x15 7,500 (4,478) from above the Riffelsee Lake (2,757 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B08 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen at sunset from near Findelbach (1,774 m) 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B09 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m, L) and Ober Gabelhorn-Wellenkuppe (4,063 m - 3,903 9x15 7,500 m, R), as seen from the Stellisee Lake (2,537 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B10 The Gabelhorn Glacier descends from Ober Gabelhorn (4,063 m) and Wellenkuppe (3,903 m) 9x15 7,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

B11 Looking [L-R] towards Rathong (6,679 m), Kabru South (7,318 m), Kabru North (7,338 m), and 9x15 7,500 Kangchendzonga (8,586 m) from Pelling (2,150 m) after a hailstorm at dusk Sikkim Himalayas / West Sikkim, India

B12 A captive snow leopard at Bulbulay 9x15 7,500 Sikkim Himalayas / East Sikkim, India

B13 The first rays of the morning sun at Delo (1,670 m) 9x15 7,500 Sikkim Himalayas / Gorkhaland, West Bengal, India

C01 The last rays of the evening sun at Delo (1,670 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / Gorkhaland, West Bengal, India

C02 Mist over Kalimpong (1,400 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / Gorkhaland, West Bengal, India

C03 Mist over Thangu (4,000 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

C04 Shaka Cho (5,000 m), a glacial lake dammed precariously behind a moraine at the foot of 12x15 9,000 Kangchengyao (6,889 m) Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

C05 A stony periglacial valley near Gochung (4,800 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

C06 Grazing along the edge of Tibet (5,000 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“Yaks give us meat and milk, which is preserved as choro [cheese]. They give us wool for warm clothes, rugs and shaggy stool tops”

C07 A moist autumnal valley near Yathang (3,600 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

C08 A sacred rock at the far end of the Gurudongmar Lake (5,150 m) 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

After completing his mystical Buddhist mission in Tibet, the great sage Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) embarks on his quest for the ‘Hidden Lands’. He, along with his retinue of disciples, arrives in this region (the northern part of present-day Sikkim) and blesses it. Here, he sows many seeds of virtue and hides many sacred treasures. He exorcises many demons and appoints them to the role of Nyedag Chosung, ‘guardians of sacred places and defenders of righteousness’.

Upon entering the region from the north, the direction of the sin-extinguishing site of Chorten Nyima, Guru Rinpoche flicks a stone across the valley to test the auspiciousness of the landscape. The stone hits the foot of the Kangchengyao mountain and swells into an enormous boulder (the present-day sacred site pictured above). The expansive blessed lake of Guru-dongma, ‘the teacher and the pioneer’, emerges at this site, just northeast of Kangchengyao.

According to another account, Guru Rinpoche arrives in the region via Kyithang, ‘the happy plain’ blessed with his footprint, and takes the form of Guru-dragmar or Guru-dong-mar, ‘the red-faced teacher’, to overcome a wrathful spirit at whom he hurls his vajra or indestructible thunderbolt weapon. After blinding the wrathful spirit, the thunderbolt lands at the site of the present-day sacred rock, and the blessed lake of Gurudongmar comes into being.

The nearby Kangchengyao mountain either embodies or houses that thunderbolt-subdued, purified spirit. It is sacred in that Guru Rinpoche has made it the local protector of morality (by blessing it with retributive powers) and the custodian of the landscape, especially the Gurudongmar Lake and several other blessed waters (glacial lakes), including the moraine-dammed Shaka Cho on its southern side. All streams that emanate from these blessed lakes are to be regarded as Thu Chu or ‘divine nectar’, a substance associated with immortality.

C09 A drowsy captive snow leopard at Bulbulay 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / East Sikkim, India

C10 A vigilant red panda at Bulbulay 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / East Sikkim, India

C11 A red panda emerges from its nest after a nap 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / East Sikkim, India

C12 Garlanded with yak cheese 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“This chhoro [yak cheese] necklace is a present from my great-aunt who has many fat yaks.”

C13 Aju Tamchok, the grandpa who had a girlfriend in Tibet 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“When Tibet was open, we would fetch lots of wonderful things from there - sheep wool and meat, rock salt, yak hide tents, silken items, brass utensils, prayer wheels, dark earthen pots… And they wanted our timber and wooden tent stakes, and rice from the plains. Tibet was my kind of place; I loved being there… Actually, I had a lover there, a girlfriend! She was very sweet and kind, but we don’t marry Tibetans.”

C14 Granny Lia’s kitchen 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“When I was little, we produced all that we ate, except rice, which was not a particularly important part of our diet because it had to be fetched from the lower valleys and plains. We had lots of roasted barley flour and buckwheat bread because these crops were grown in our valley. There was also a tuberous crop called tho. The tuber would be dug out, soaked in a sour solution, and crushed into a fine flour for bread. Potatoes and radishes are still around, but yields were probably better in those days. And our radishes were tastier. Yak meat is still the same, and so are those meat garlands you see hanging from the ceiling.”

C15 Ana Lia, the granny who still speaks of the Yeti 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“When I was fifteen, so much snow fell… it was nearly as high as the roof! A Myingö [‘king among men’, yeti] clambered up… He came into the verandah, and sat down… “Braaam!” Grandma got some burning charcoal out of the wood stove and put a handful of red chillies on it. She slid the sizzling chillies under the door and out… The Yeti sneezed… “Ahh…in, ah…in!” And off he went… Off he went… galloping! Hehehehe! I don’t think you’ll ever meet a yeti, but if you hear an almost human guttural song on a snowy winter night in a forest like ours, you can be sure it is a yeti… I presume the yetis of my generation left behind few offspring, many of which were born defective or sick. It was probably a crippling disease... And it’s a bit too warm now… for those hairy creatures… My grandmother once told me that a young yeti could impregnate a healthy girl like me and that yeti lads probably preferred clean, fair Bhutia girls to their own females.”

C16 The late Granny Tamkie 12x15 9,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“There is life because there is death... I am old. I have lived my life. Death must be on its way.”

C17 Valais crochet on a chalet window 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C18 Breithorn (4,164 m), as seen from Klein Matterhorn (3,883 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C19 Wind-torn rainclouds 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C20 The 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C21 Crevasses on the Theodul Glacier 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

“My grandfather used to say that there are as many wounds on this glacier as there are lies in this world.”

C22 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m) and its reflection in the Stellisee Lake (2,537 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C23 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m) and its reflection in the Stellisee Lake (2,537 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C24 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m) and its reflection in the Stellisee Lake (2,537 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C25 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen from near Unterrothorn (3,104 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C26 Looking [L-R] towards (4,228 m), (4,092 m) and Breithorn (4,164 m) from an 12x15 9,000 autumnal meadow near Unterrothorn (3,104 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C27 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen from near Unterrothorn (3,104 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C28 From the snowfields of Cima di Jazzi (3,803) descends the 8-kilometre-long , 12x15 9,000 which has retreated 2.5 kilometres since 1885 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C29 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m), as seen at dusk from near Findelbach (1,774 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C30 Looking [L-R] towards a cloud-shrouded Matterhorn (4,478 m) from above Riffelsee (2,757 m) 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C31 Looking [L-R] towards Ober Gabelhorn (4,063 m), Wellenkuppe (3,903 m) and 12x15 9,000 (4,221 m) from above the Riffelsee Lake (2,757 m) just after a storm Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C32 Looking [L-R] towards a cloud-shrouded Matterhorn (4,478 m), Ober Gabelhorn (4,063 m), 12x15 9,000 Wellenkuppe (3,903 m) and Zinalrothorn (4,221 m) from above the Riffelsee Lake (2,757 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C33 The crevassed, decaying Upper Gorner Glacier with its medial moraine, as seen from near 12x15 9,000 (3,089 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C34 The two feeders of the Gorner Glacier - the Upper Gorner (L) and Grenz (R) – 12x15 9,000 separated by the Massif (4,634 m), at whose base lies Gornersee, an ice-marginal lake that drains very rapidly almost every summer, resulting in outburst floods that occasionally damage the downstream towns of Täsch and Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C35 At the confluence of the Upper Gorner and Grenz Glaciers lies Gornersee, an ice-marginal lake 12x15 9,000 that drains very rapidly almost every summer, resulting in outburst floods that occasionally damage the downstream towns of Täsch and Zermatt Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C36 The Grenz Glacier descends from between Monte Rosa (L, 4,634 m) and Liskamm (R, 4,527 m) 12x15 9,000 to nourish the 12-kilometre-long moraine-flanked Gorner Glacier, which has retreated 2.6 kilometres since 1882 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C37 A supraglacial lake on the decaying Gorner Glacier 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C38 Clouds rise from the snows of Matterhorn (4,478 m) as it watches over the waters of Riffelsee 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C39 The first rays of the morning son light up the Grenz Glacier as it descends from between Monte 12x15 9,000 Rosa (L, 4,634 m) and Liskamm (R, 4,527 m) to nourish the Gorner Glacier Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C40 Looking down the cloud-immersed Matter Valley 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

C41 Zinalrothorn (4,221 m), one of the sharpest horns in the world 12x15 9,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

“When I was little, my friends called me because of my sharp nose… But I never liked that mountain - it looks so harsh!”

C42 The firn field of Jungfraufirn (3,450 m), one of themain feeders of the Great , 12x15 9,000 which has retreated 3 kilometres since 1886, but is still nearly 23 kilometres long and up to 940 metres thick

Bernese Alps / , Switzerland

C43 A mountain with a rich history 12x15 9,000 / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

C44 The village of (800 m) 12x15 9,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

C45 (4,274 m) at dusk 12x15 9,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

C46 (3,692 m) before sunset 12x15 9,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

C47 A heavily séraced glacier descends from the Mountain (4,158 m) 12x15 9,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

D01 Looking (L-R) towards Gspaltenhorn (3,436 m) and Blüemlisalp (3,661 m) from a high spur 13X20 12,000 near (2,970 m)

Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

D02 Mönch (4,107 m), as seen from the snowfield of Jungfraufirn (3,450 m) 13X20 12,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

D03 Monte Rosa (4,634 m), the second highest mountain in the Alps, and Gorner, the second largest 13X20 12,000 glacial system in the Alps, as seen from near (2,939 m)

Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

D04 The Upper Gorner Glacier with its medial moraine, as seen from near Trockener Steg (2,939 m) 13X20 12,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

D05 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m) and the Stellisee Lake (2,537 m) 13X20 12,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

D06 An unnamed snow-covered massif at dawn 13X20 12,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

D07 The first snow of winter at Thangu (4,000 m) 13X20 12,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“Almost nothing happens in the winter, except eating, clearing the snow, praying, and sleeping. Most of us are Lachenpa, so we go down gradually to Lachen between October and December and come back to the Thangu area between March and May. The Tibetan-speaking Drokpa, along with most of our yaks, move up for the winter to the high, dry and windy lands of Muguthang and Cho Lhamu along the edge ofTibet.”

D08 Kangchendzonga (R, 8,586 m) and Siniolchu (L, 6,888 m), as seen from the foot of 13X20 12,000 Kangchengyao (6,889 m)

Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“Kangchengyao only watches over our valley; Kangchendzonga is in charge of the wider landscape… And Siniolchu must be Kangchendzonga’s assistant – being taller than Kangchengyao, he is rather important… But unlike our Kangchengyao, he is always in the shadow of Kangchendzonga.”

D09 Shaka Cho (5,000 m), a proglacial lake dammed precariously behind loose morainic debris 13X20 12,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

“I think Shaka Cho can burst. I spent many of my childhood summers around Shaka Cho, so I know it is pretty dangerous... In those days, we used to think an avalanche would push Shaka Cho out of Kangchengyao’s lap, but there isn’t enough snow anymore… What will happen now is that a monsoon storm will suddenly throw all of that stony garbage right into the soup bowl, and the soup will go “boom”! Hahaha, and we’ll go “zoom”!”

D10 The Lachen Chu flows briskly through autumnal scrubland near Gochung (4,800 m) 13X20 12,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

D11 The placid Gurudongmar Lake (5,150 m) 13X20 12,000 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E01 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m) and the Stellisee Lake (2,537 m) 15X20 12,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

E02 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m) watches over the town of Zermatt (1,608 m) 15X20 12,500 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

E03 Eastern Himalayan firs (Abies densa) and rhododendrons at the foot of a snowy massif 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E04 The last hamlet before Tibet 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E05 Prayers rise through the clouds to the snows and beyond 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E06 Autumn arrives at the shores of Gurudongmar (5,150 m) 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E07 Autumn arrives at the shores of Gurudongmar (5,150 m) 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E08 A restful afternoon by the Gurudongmar Lake (5,150 m) 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E09 The shimmering waters of Gurudongmar (5,150 m) 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

E10 The Kangchendzonga Massif (8,586 m), as seen from Singhik (1,350 m) 15X20 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

F01 Wetterhorn (3,692 m) watches over the lush valley of (1,034 m) 16X24 15,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

F02 (3,970 m) and Mönch (4,107 m), separated by the , as seen from near the 16X24 15,000 traditional Walser village of Mürren (1,650 m) Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

F03 The Matterhorn / Cervino Massif (4,478 m), bounded by the glacial valleys of Gorner (L) and 16X24 15,000 (R), at whose confluence lies the village of Furi (1,867 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

F04 The Jungfrau Mountain (4,158 m), as seen from the alpine meadow of (1,874 m) 18X24 16,000 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

F05 Looking towards the Gspaltenhorn Massif (3,436 m) from the alpine meadow of Wengernalp 18X24 16,000 (1,874 m) Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

F06 Matterhorn (4,478 m) and the Matter Valley, as seen from near Blauherd (2,517 m) 18X24 16,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

F07 Clouds drift over the Matter Valley 20X20 16,000 Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

P01 A panoramic view from the ramparts of Kangchengyao (6,889 m) 9x30 12,500 Sikkim Himalayas / North Sikkim, India

P02 Eiger (3,970 m), Mönch (4,107 m) and Jungfrau (4,158 m), as seen from Winteregg (1578 m) 9x30 12,500 Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

P03 A panoramic view (L-R) of Lauterbrunnen Breithorn (3,780 m), Tschingelhorn (3,562 m), 9x30 12,500 Gspaltenhorn (3,436 m) and Blüemlisalp (3,661 m) from Schilthorn (2,970 m) Bernese Alps / Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

P04 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m, L) and Ober Gabelhorn - Wellenkuppe 9x30 12,500 (4,063 m - 3,903 m, R) reflected in the waters of Stellisee (2,537 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

P05 Matterhorn / Monte Cervino (4,478 m, L) and Ober Gabelhorn - Wellenkuppe 9x30 12,500 (4,063 m - 3,903 m, R), as seen from Stellisee (2,537 m) Pennine Alps / Valais, Switzerland

G01- Garden Fauna Series 9x12/ 6,000/ G16 Focus on Himalayan birds 12x15 9,000

G17- Garden Flora Series 9x12 6,000 G20 Himalayan rhododendrons

M01- Introducing Granny Mohini, a character from my forthcoming ethnographic documentary film 9x12 6,000 M03 Garhwal Himalayas / Uttarakhand, India

“Look at me… I am a real woman… You youngsters are just clothes and slippers!”

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