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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
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HS 5, HS, Himalaya, Mountaineering, Skiing, Himalaya - Ski Expedition
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.)