Spiti is fascinating in so many ways that it is difficult not to get bewitched by one of its myriad spells. Beauty comes in several avatars here. It can be in the form of the last silken rays of the soft sun illuminating a lofty mountain peak, a nimble footed Ibex feeding comfortably in a […]

Or How apparently harmless human presence can disturb an elusive carnivore by Rishi Kumar Sharma (Rishi is in field at the moment with little access to email and I am posting this on his behalf) It was a usual summer morning at Spiti; the first rays of the sun were illuminating the tops of the […]

I saw them for the first time as I was moving into my base camp. Very excited, I focused my binocular and observed them for some time. They seemed to be wondering around; not searching for anything specific. Soon they were gone and I was back setting up my camp which was to be home […]