Rosefinches are the only birds that sing to me on bleak, icy, rimy ridges in the Himalayas. This one was gracious enough to keep me company as I dragged my weary self through a frozen 15,000-foot-high pass below the rugged Rajrambha.

The high snows of Dremoshong blow a delicate mist into the mysterious realm of the mirgö [yeti], the elusive scratcher of fir and rhododendron barks!

Countless starlings of peace for those who are in pain

Dumani (Rakaposhi), Nanda Devi, Annapurna, Chomolangma (Mt Everest), Chomoyummo, and Chomolhari are motherly figures in my world. Invisible but inviolable umbilical cords connect my life to their glacial bodies. Those cords will withstand the death and incineration of my brain.

Friends, I expect monsoon disturbances from the northern Arabian Sea to cause extreme rainfall events (sleetstorms above 4600 m, snowstorms above 5400 m) in parts of the upper catchments of the Rivers Beas, Chenab, and Ravi between Sunday 24th and Tuesday 26th August. ...

Friends, The last two photographic prints of 'The numinous visage of Annapurna South at first light' (32" x 20", limited edition of 5) from my Frozen Summer 2025 collection are being sold until Sunday 24th August. Should you wish to acquire a piece, please get in touch. Thanks!

As expected, there has been a fatal extreme rainfall event in the Doda District. Until this evening, the storm will only intensify in parts of Purig-Baltistan, E/SE Jammu & Kashmir, and NW/W Himachal (where localised rainfall intensities of >40 mm/hour are possible till tonight).