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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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© Gordon Wiltsie
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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.