Interesting. Thanks for posting. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 10:23 PM Subash Jeyan <[email protected]> wrote: > i was going through my photo archives when i came across this photo, > taken during a trek in the himalayas in june 2011(i had posted a GESO > then but i don't think this particular photo was in it). > > https://web.500px.com/photo/1013740652/the-tombstone-by-Subash-Jeyan/ > > https://web.500px.com/photo/1013740653/t-by-Subash-Jeyan/ > > we (me, a friend and his wife) had started the trek from a village > called loharkhet. the destination for the day was another village called > dhakuri and one had to climb a mountain pass to get to it. we were > about 6 to 7km out of the village when we came across this curious > tombstone, curious because it was in the middle of nowhere and it was > the first we had come across in our treks. (the dog in the photo > materialised one km out into the trek and accompanied us until we > reached dhakuri.) > > i tried to find out more after i completed the trek in 2011 but > couldn't. but google threw up a reference to the tombtone in an article, > written in 2012: > > > https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/NNUKYNs8MuYzc6D0frsyMN/Pindari-glacier--Resilient-earth.html > > it is about a year and a half since my last trek in the himalayas. > hopefully i can make it again when this lockdown and COVID-19 blows > over....if it blows over. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
