The Himālaya Dispatch

Seers.

Earcleaners in uniform; red pointy caps sailors at the edge of the world wore. A gaggle of them: Doc, Grumpy, Dopey, Happy, Sneezy, Bashful and Sleepy. Tucked away in the cap's fold is a wad of cotton and a long slim pick. A black bag hangs on all left shoulders.

Good snowfall in Quetta, Balochistan after several years ❄️ This Western Disturbance will next hit Kashmir, Jammu, Ladakh, HP & UK along with parts of plains with much needed snow for drought.

when you want to take a mental health walk but you live in kazakhstan

Nathanael West, funny mf. Read Miss Lonelyhearts.

photos I took hiking

very short lived substorm a few minutes ago but up there with the best color and detail I've ever seen

Mule Deer in the Badlands, Carl Rungius, c.1910

Sangre De Cristo Mountains - New Mexico, Eliot Porter, 1947

The most beautiful farms are coffee farms. Jaén, Peru

as if awakened, she turns her face to yours; and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny, inside the golden amber of her eyeballs suspended, like a prehistoric fly. —Rainer Maria Rilke, 'Black Cat'.

a little color in the Catskills but nothing I'd stand out in the cold for

Nikki McClarron's photographs of Tibetan nomads.

© Kin Coedel, 2023.

The obese and the emaciated will save the world.

this is what they took from you

Danish Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen is trapped under an avalanche while on expedition in Greenland. His feet are grievously frostbitten, but he saves himself by fashioning a dagger from his own frozen feces and chopping his foot off.