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Himalayan Diaries | Conversation with Sujoy Das & Paula Sengupta
Artist Paula Sengupta and photographer Sujoy Das have travelled through the Himalayas for many years.This exhibition brings together some of Sujoy's small frame works and reproductions of Paula's...
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Nikon D850 | A Monster of a Camera
Nikon announced the formal launch of it's new full frame SLR - the 45.7 MP D850 which has specs far advanced than the current series of Nikon cameras. The specs of the D850 are given below and they are...
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Vittorio Sella | Mountain Photographer
Jannu from ChunjermaToday 28th August 2017 is the 158th birth anniversary of the great mountain photographer Vittorio Sella. Vittorio Sella was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, who took...
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Manaslu Magic | Black and White
View from Samagaon monastery looking south The circuit of Manaslu the eight highest mountain in the world now qualifies as one of the finest treks in the Nepal Himalaya. A team from South Col...
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Orchids | Singapore Changi Airport
The Singapore Orchid Garden at Changi Airport Terminal 2 features more than 700 orchids of 30 species grouped by their various colours and shapes, representing the 4 elements of nature – Earth,...
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Puppet Theatre of Indonesia
Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art found in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, wherein a dramatic story is told through...
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Moods of Tso Moriri
Tso Moriri or Lake Moriri (Tibetan: ལྷ་མོའི་བླ་མཚོ, Wylie: lha mo bla mtsho) or "Mountain Lake", is a lake in the Ladakhi part of the Changthang Plateau (literally: northern plains) in Jammu and...
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Bhutan | Photographs from the Land of Happiness
Prayer wheels at Chimi Lakhang near PunakhaI was recently in Bhutan for a week doing some planning and reconnaisance for a South Col trek in the spring of 2018. I travelled in the valleys of Paro,...
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Bhutan | Hotels - Some Recommendations
Tenzinling Resort at duskOn a recent visit to Bhutan I stayed at some very nice boutique properties in Paro, Thimpu and Punakha. I am reviewing these hotels below as this would be useful for visitors...
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Annapurna Foothills Trek December 23-30 217
The Annapurna foothills provide tremendous trekking with delightful trails connecting villages and ridge tops. This picturesque trek winds through enchanting villages with ochre thatched houses,...
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Bhutan | Arrival and Departure Formalities for Indian Citizens
Paro airportI visited Bhutan recently flying into Paro airport from Kolkata and I have been asked a lot of questions regarding entry formalities into Bhutan for Indians and whether any visa or permits...
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Raghubir Singh - A Retrospective The Met Breur New York October 11 2017-Jan 2...
Raghubir Singh was undoubtedly one of the greatest colour photographers of his generation. He produced around fourteen books - all of them on India - the country where he spent the major part of his...
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Banff Mountain Book Festival Winners 2017
Grand Prize$4000 - Sponsored by Alpine Club of CanadaThe ClimbersJim Herrington, Mountaineers Books (USA, 2017)"Representing the fruits of a twenty-year photographic quest, Jim Herrington's stunning...
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The Himalayan | November 25th 2017 Kolkata
OF HIMALAYAN CLIMBS ,TRAVELS & TECHNOLOGY – A program hosted by ‘THE HIMALAYAN’ 25th November (Saturday) at the Gorky Sadan, 6pm.THE HIMALAYAN’ was conceived in 2017, to attract like-minded...
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Mustang Nepal | The Trans Himalaya
Cultivated fields of ChuksangMustang (from the Tibetan möntang (Wylie: smon-thang), Nepali: मुस्तांग Mustāṃg "fertile plain"), formerly Kingdom of Lo, is a remote and isolated region of the Nepalese...
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Yeti | The Myth is dismissed
Edmund Hillary, one of the first two people to scale Mount Everest, and Khunjo Chumbi, a Nepali village elder, hold what was then thought to be the scalp of yeti, in Calcutta, India, on December 9,...
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Everest Base Camp Trek | The Best Season ?
I am often asked which is the best time to trek in the Everest region? Is it April and October? Interestingly things have changed a lot including the weather so this post covers the seasons and the...
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Annapurna Foothills Trek | The Photographs
Approaching LandrungSouth Col Expeditions completed another Annapurna Foothills Trek from December 23-30 2017 amidst speactacular winter weather with clear blue skies and warm sunshine. Some...
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Nikon 180-400 Super Zoom with TC 1.4 Teleconverter
Nikon introduces a 180-400 F4 superzoom with 1.4 teleconverter built in at $12,399.95!The press release from the Nikon USA site says it all:"Pros who spend time behind a super-telephoto lens know a...
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Himalayan Weather
Annapurna South, Huinchuli and Machhapuchhare from DhampusIf you read any guide book on the Himalaya or on trekking in the Himalayan region, you will invariably be told that the post-monsoon season is...
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