The snow wall of Kinnaur Kailash seen across the valley from Kalpa, Himachal Pradesh

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Apple orchards under Kinner Kailash

The Sutlej carves through Kinnaur on the old Hindustan–Tibet road. Sangla and Chitkul sit in the Baspa valley, Kalpa faces the Kinner Kailash massif across the gorge, and every village is wrapped in apple orchards and slate-roofed wooden houses.

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Timber houses at Chitkul, the last village in the Sangla valley, Himachal Pradesh
Apple orchards and terraced fields along the Baspa river in the Sangla valley, Kinnaur
The village of Kalpa on a shelf above the Sutlej valley in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh

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