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Monthly Archive: November 2015

Ladakh Leh Flight Window View 9

Made in Ladakh

Ladakh is the kind of place you bring your wildest expectations to, and then watch them pale in comparison to reality. Here are a few snippets of the many memories made in Ladakh on...

Paragliding Bir 4

Leap Before You Look – Paragliding in Bir

  I’d read it somewhere and felt it resonate – The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. Every mountaintop I’d met had affirmed this....

Bir, Billing, North India 0

Are We Here Yet?

Skies punctuated by floating people wherever I looked – a bizarrely common sight these days in Bir with the Paragliding World Cup behind us. Even as I write these words, three gliders slow-dance with the winds outside my window and a fourth cartwheels her canopy, shouting her glee into the winds. To get closer to the action and to get our nature fix, we drove up to Billing and scampered like lab rats set loose on the mountain.