Skiing Kashmirs Snow-Swept Peaks
March 07, 2013 13:56
On a frigid night in Gulmarg, a Himalayan outpost deep in Kashmir, a friend and I sipped sweet tea and warmed ourselves next to a wood stove while a local ski guide named Javed stood in front of us, roaring like a bear.
"Baah! Baah!' he shouted, his hands outstretched like claws. "I thought it was going to kill us,' Javed said of the Asiatic black bear he had encountered a few days before while skiing in the backcountry. Read
"Baah! Baah!' he shouted, his hands outstretched like claws. "I thought it was going to kill us,' Javed said of the Asiatic black bear he had encountered a few days before while skiing in the backcountry. Read