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Mountain Photography at Night
92 sec f 6.3 ISO 800On a recent South Col trek to Nepal I was able to experiment with a lot of mountain photography at dusk and at night. I am sharing some tips in this post:TRIPOD It goes without...
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The Markha Valley Trek in Ladakh
The MarkhaValley is one of the most popular treks in Ladakh. It is relatively short, located close to Leh, the walking is mostly below 4000 metres with night stops around 3500 metres and has the best...
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Trekking Gear in Kolkata
This is a list prepared by a fellow trekker Projjwal Das which mentions the stores selling trekking and mountaineering gear in Kolkata. It should be useful to most trekkers and climbers who go to the...
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Nikon D7100
Nikon announced the launch of their new "flagship" DX camera the D7100 to replace the D7000 and the D300s as well. This new DX body has a 24 MP sensor , an EXPEED 3 image processor, 2 SD cards, 51...
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The Langtang Valley Trek in Nepal
Amongst the three major trekking areas in Nepal, namely, Everest, Annapurna and Langtang, the Langtang valley is the most under trekked. Most of the big name peaks are in the Everest and Annapurna...
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Down Works, Santa Cruz, California
On a recent visit to Santa Cruz, California, I dropped in to see Nick Gravem at the Down Works. The speciality hiking and outdoor equipment store was founded by Nick and his wife Shelley in 1974. In...
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Santa Cruz Downtown: California
I had rented the new Nikon D600 full frame (FX sensor) DSLR and was trying it out for a few days. Downtown Santa Cruz seemed to a good place with it's pubs, cafes, shops and interesting light! Here are...
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The California Coast: Cambria
I recently had the opportunity of spending a very pleasant three days at Cambria - a small town on the Pacific Coast on the scenic Highway 1. These are some of the photographs of the Pacific Coast from...
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Butterfly Garden: Changi Airport, Singapore
On my return flight from California to India, I had a long stop over at Changi Aiport, Singapore. Taking advantage of this, I spent an hour photographing in the Butterfly Garden located within Terminal...
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Nikon D7100, D7000 & D600 : DXO Mark Scores
Most photographers would take a quick look at the Dxo mark scores before making decision to buy a camera. So as I was also deciding on a new body and was favouring the full frame D600, I decided to...
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The Final Frontier : India Today Travel Plus April 2013
Ranjan Pal trekked with South Col Expeditions to Kala Pattar in November 2013. In this photo essay for India Today Travel Plus April 2013 he describes his iconic trek.The Final Frontier : The Trek to...
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Nikon D600: Hands on Review
As mentioned in my earlier post Santa Cruz Downtown , I rented a Nikon D600 body in the USA and used it for a few days. I wanted to get a hands on experience with the camera before deciding whether...
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Denzong Regency: Gangtok
On a recent visit to Gangtok, I was fortunate to stay for two nights at the Denzong Regency. This Welcome Group property owned by Thinlay Densapa of Bermiok is perched on a ridge above the Densapa...
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MIntokling Guest House: Gangtok
One of the better guest houses in Gangtok and located in a quiet part of the town below the gates of the Palace, Mintokling is run by the brother and sister duo of Pema and Tenzing. The guest house...
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Mark Horrell: When Trekking becomes Mountaineering
M ark Horrell, climber, writer and photographer has written an excellent post on his blog about trekking and mountaineering and the fine line between the two. Do visit Mark's blog for more articles and...
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Three Passes of Everest Trek
The top of the Rhenjo La pass - one of the three passes crossed on this trek For the complete photo essay please do visit http://travel.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?285825THE INFORMATIONGETTING...
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Everest West Ridge: The First Traverse of Everest Fifty Years Ago
The West Ridge of Everest with the climbers below - Photo Courtesy Everest, The West Ridge by Tom HorbeinOn 21st May 1963 at six o’clock in the evening two climbers reached 27,205 feet (8300 metres)...
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Everest Sixty Years After - Part I
Everest as seen from near the 5th lake of Gokyo On 28th May 1953 two men set up Camp Nine at 27,900 feet on the south East Ridge of Everest. Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Thami near Namche Bazar had...
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Everest - The 60th Anniversary
Photo from Man of Everest The Biography of Tenzing by James Ramsay UllmanToday is the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by Tenzing and Hillary. The sheer joy and innocence of this...
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