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Himalaya - Ski Expedition 67 images Created 15 Jun 2021

The first-ever ski expedition across the Himalaya in Kashmir, India 1983, including Jay Jensen, Allan Pietrasanta + Gordon Wiltsie
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Great Himalaya Range, Ladakh, India. Ski mountaineers begin two-week, trans-Himalaya ski tour above Panikarh in Suru Valley.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir In an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses Warwan pass, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses Warwan pass, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Bearing heavy packs, ski mountaineers Allan Pietrasanta and Jay Jensen descend below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Jay Jensen telemarks in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Bearing a heavy pack, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta telemarks in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers descend Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski Mountaineers cross Warwan Pass en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Jay Jensen makes turns in knee deep powder below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta telemarks in powder snow below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta explores around a camp below 16,000 foot Warwan Pass during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers break camp amidst blowing spindrift in the snowy Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • GREAT HIMALAYA RANGE, KASHMIR, INDIA. Snowbound stream flows through Warwan Valley.
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  • Ski mountaineers camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers camp in the snowy Warwan Valley en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineers set up a camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers camp in the snowy Warwan Valley en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineers camp in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range during a two-week expedition crossing the mountains from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers crosses a stream in the Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Icicles hang over a stone-filled stream in the Warwan Valley of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A Ski Mountaineers follows a stream in the Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta kicks and glides without a pack before descending into the Warwan River Gorge during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir, across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • Great Himalaya Range, Kashmir, India. Mountaineer cross country skis around camp in Warwan Valley during two-week Himalayan crossing.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta kicks steps down an icy slope above the Warwan River Gorge, during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Using a short, thin rope, ski mountaineer AllanPietrasanta rappels from trees to tree into the Warwan River Gorge during a pioneering two-week ski expedition from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A ski mountaineer traverses avalanche debris beside a fork of the Warwan River in India's Great Himalaya Range.  This team of three skiers, who completed the first-ever ski traverse across the Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir, was later caught in an avalanche themselves.  The photographer suffered two crushed vertebrae by managed to ski the rest of the way back to civilization.
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  • A ski mountaineer - dwarfed by India's Great Himalaya Range - climbs out of the Warwan River Gorge as a storm approaches and avalanche danger builds.
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  • Ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta squeezes with two companions into a small two-person tent during a pioneering two-week ski expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Dawn lights up a summit above Gulol Pass in the Great Himalaya Range of Kashmir, India.
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  • A lesser known summit of India's Great Himalaya range, near Pahalgam, Kashmir, glows in a morning sunrise.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • A mountaineer camps atop a 16,000+ foot pass near the end of an expedition to ski from Ladakh to Kashmir across India's Great Himalaya Range.  Later that day the team was avalanched over a cliff on the other side of the pass and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the team managed to finish the expedition successfully under their own power.
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  • Camped atop a 16,000+ foot pass, ski mountaineer Allan Pietrasanta looks back at some of the gorges his team followed during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Just hours later, on the other side of the pass, the team was caught in an avalanche and the photographer crushed two vertebrae, but the group finished their journey under their own power.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta, Gordon Wiltsie & Jay Jensen camp near the summit of Gulol Pass in Kashmir, just before getting avalanched in their ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A ski mountaineer crosses Gulol Pass, en route across the Himalaya.
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  • SKI MOUNTAINEERING, Great Himalaya Range, India. Jay Jensen (MR) atop Gulol Pass,  during ski mountaineering expedition across Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta set up an emergency camp after they and the photographer were avalanched down a gully adjacent to this cliff.  This was the first-ever winter traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir. Not knowing that he had suffered two crushed vertebrae and a knee injury Wiltsie was able to ski two more days to the first civilization.
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  • A cliffy gully down which Gordon Wiltsie and companions were avalanched during the first-ever ski crossing of India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • A steep, cliffy gully down which Allan Pietrasanta, Jay Jensen and Gordon Wiltsie were avalanched, near the end of the first-ever winter ski traverse over India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.  All survived, but Wiltsie crushed two vertebrae and - not knowing the extent of his injuries - skied out under his own power.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta fashion emergency skis for a self rescue after being avalanched down the gully behind them.  Although the photographer suffered two crushed vertebrae, the team managed to successfully finish first-ever winter traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta saw a ski in half with a Swiss Army knife after its mate was buried in an avalanche that catapulted them down the cliffs behind.  Photographer Gordon Wiltsie did not yet know that he had crushed two vertebrae, but everyone knew he was seriously injured.  He was given the only remaining pair of skis in order to facilitate a self-rescue.  (This was near the end of the first-ever winter traverse across India's Great Himalaya Range from Ladakh to Kashmir.)
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  • Ski Mountaineers Jay Jensen and Allan Pietrasanta help each other to cross a stream near the end of an the first-ever winter traverse of from Ladakh to Kashmir. Two days earlier the team was caught in a massive avalanche and the photographer - who was able to ski and hike out - did not yet know he was suffering from two crushed vertebrae and a less-serious knee injury.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie stumbles out of India's Great Himalaya Range after crushing two vertebrae in an avalance near the end of the first-ever ski traverse from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Allan Pietrasanta & Jay Jensen encounter villagers near Pahalgam, Kashmir, after being avalanched in a ski mountaineering traverse of India's Great Himalaya Range.  The villagers could not believe that the team had crossed the mountains in winter.  (The photographer suffered crushed vertebrae in the accident, but was able to ski out himself.)
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  • Gordon Wiltsie, Jay Jensen, Allan Pietrasanta and the manager of Pahalgam Hotel pose after the ski mountaineers finished a two-week traverse of the Great Himalaya Range, from Ladakh to Kashmir.  Wiltsie is suffering crushed vertebrae from an avalanche that engulfed the team, but in retrospect they were especially lucky to survive. A few months later a group of young trekkers was kidnapped from this town and never seen again.
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  • A family rides a horse cart to market in Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • A brother and sister paddle a shikar boat on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • A brother and sister paddle a shikar boat on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • Salesmen sell flowers, vegetables and other things from the shikar boats on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • A housekeeper cleans a tourist houseboat  on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • A Kashmiri man relaxes in  Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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  • A housekeeper cleans a tourist houseboat  on Dal Lake, Srinigar, Kashmir, India.
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