Layered mountain ridges at dawn in pink and violet

Four Days to Kedarkantha

Notes from a winter trek, written in a tent with cold hands.

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Day one is easy and everyone lies about how easy it is. Day two is pine forest and snow that squeaks. Day three is the camp below the summit, where nobody sleeps.

We left for the top at three in the morning. By the time the sun came up, the ridges behind us had turned the colour of the inside of a shell, one layer paler than the next, all the way to Tibet.

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An example book, made to show how Stories reads.

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Zoya Siddiqui

Photographer. I walk old cities slowly and write down what the people who live there tell me.