From the Field
Spiti & Kinnaur Gallery.
Photographs carried back from the Shimla–Spiti circuit — Key and Komic, the Chicham gorge, the villages above Kaza. Click any frame to open it full size.
Every Frame
from the raid archive
The places in these frames
Six Days,
Photographed.
Kinnaur
The first two days: the Sutlej gorge above Rampur, the orchards and the Baspa river at Sangla, the Kinner Kailash range from Kalpa at dusk, and Nako with its lake and its mud-walled lanes. Green in summer, white and very quiet from December.
Spiti
Tabo's thousand-year-old monastery, Dhankar on its cliff above the meeting of two rivers, Key stacked up its hill, and the bridge at Chicham over one of the deepest gorges on the route. Kaza is the base for two nights.
The high villages
Above Kaza: Komic at 4,587 metres, the post office at Hikkim, and the fossil beds at Langza under the Chau Chau Kang Nilda peak. The fourth day, and the highest point of the trip.
Every picture here was taken on one of our own departures by the photographer who travels with the convoy — not bought in. Every guest goes home with the full edited set from their own trip, which is part of the price. If you want to know what the same places look like in the other season, the summer circuit and the winter road are both described day by day in the Journal.