From Ladakh

After almost a month sweating in the jungles of central India, it seems hardly possible that so recently I was in Ladakh with an intrepid band of snow-leopard-watchers. However, while I have been out of the range of the internet, I have received many photos from the clients - now friends - of my 2015 snow leopard tour with Naturetrek. With their permission, I reproduce some of them here,

Dog at Shey Gompa by Nick Baker

Tea in Norboo's house in Ulley by Nick Baker

Snow leopard in Ulley by Richard Hurrell

Snow leopard by Richard Hurrell

Snow leopard by Richard Hurrell

A local lad watching a snow leopard with us in Ulley
by Nick Baker

Snow leopard in Ulley by Giovanni Mari

The walk into camp in the Rumbak Valley
by Stan da Prato

Our bags carried into camp
by Stan da Prato

Large-eared pika at Lato by Stan da Prato

Denzel the camp yak by Stan da Prato

Denzel by Stan da Prato
(sounds like the name of a perfume)

Camp in the Rumbak Valley
by Stan da Prato

The start of the snowstorm in the Rumbak Valley
by Stan da Prato

Camp in the snow by Stan da Prato

Water being brought from the river through holes chipped in the ice
by Stan da Prato

Snow leopard above camp at dawn
by Giovanni Mari

Snow leopard far above camp, seen from Lato
by Giovanni Mari

Camp by starlight
by Richard Hurrell