Clouds loom on top of the mountains and the cold wind starts to nag us. The peak of Annapurna II is looming at the horizon. 2 more days and some steep ascent of 2,000 meters, and we reach the 5,416m Thorong La pass, high above the clouds. Muktinath, at 3,710 meters, is waiting for us, after a steep [...]

After a couple of days, we now begin to get into the rhythm of trekking. Wake-up call each morning around 6 am, having a quick breakfast of Tibetan bread and tea, then heading out in the cool morning. As a blue-white day rises up around us from the dark blue palette of the perished night, we [...]

…So as I was saying, treking is exhausting…Exhausting but exhilarating at the same time. In Manang, at 3,600 meters during our acclimatisation day, we are blessed by a 95-year-old lama. No snow leopard or yeti at sight. Instead, a herd of black shaggy yaks moving down along the slope of the mountain and gazing at the cliff [...]

Sorry I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to write anything… Well, we are now back home in Paris – actually the titles will be in French from now on – no I am kinding! But seriously I still have plenty of photos to show you and many adventures to share. Let’s start with [...]

Is it the highest altitude Polaroid picture ever taken? At 5,416m, it may well be so! Sure, the image is not perfectly sharp… But surely, the Polaroid camera was not engineered for such altitude! Almost frozen (like my hands), with a bit of ice still on it, it is still a decent shot! Sure, the magic camera [...]

4am in a full moon night and we are already hitting the trail up to Thorong La, a pass located high at 5,416m between the Annapurna mountains. ‘La’ means the pass or more appropriately the deity or keeper of the pass who may or may not let the trekker cross over. 6am and the silver circles of [...]

100 rupees (about 1 euro), that’s what it will cost you to be blessed by Lama Teshi. The monk may be 95 years old but at 3,800m, perched on a cliff just above the town of Manang, he is still a welcoming young man and he will bless all the trekkers fearing the famous Thorong pass. Such [...]

Slowed down by an extreme heat, blurred by a heavy dust and drenched in colors during the Holi festival, the Polaroid camera was facing its biggest challenge so far… Located in a crumbling building, the New Delhi post office was a ramshackle of small offices. I managed to buy some stamps and stuck them on the [...]

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“Older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend. And looks twice as old as all of them put together” – Mark Twain After the Holi Festival in Kolkata, we took a night train to Varanasi/Benares, the holy city of India. It is India in all its splendor and all its misery, India you will love [...]