The Ladakh season has started for us. The view from the air of a remote Ladakhi village. Just last week our boys took off from Gurgaon for the journey to Leh, their trucks loaded with gear and and their hearts full of enthusiasm. The final journey of mountaineer Nawang Gombu in Darjeeling, India. The funeral procession enters the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. Gombu was part of the first group of Sherpa mountaineers who along with Tenzi.

Friday, December 17, 2010. KINNAUR, SPITI, LADAKH - JULY, AUGUST 2010. Flying into Delhi on 29. June I was met by Rimo Expeditions guide Pawan, introduced to office manager Alka and met my travelling guide and companion Vishwas Raj. Packing up for Day 2 of Trek.

Performing objects of fascination and disquiet. Ambiguous Categories a puppet and poet on tour in Ireland. Puppets are controversial things it seems, burdened with presumptions about what they are, what they represent and where they belong. Connemara for Clifden Arts week. Not be a tasteless and crass thing? .

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Sunday, November 21, 2010. I spend days and nights losing the battle that rages on within the confines of my own cranium. Now mind you, in a physical sense it is a vast battlefield, but in a less literal sense it would seem pretty sparse. Monday, November 8, 2010. Tuesday, February 2, 2010.