Kharma Valley: the unmarked trail

A sunny Manali day with Pawan and Rahul, following a path that never fully declared itself.

In my first weeks around Manali, Pawan, Rahul and I followed an unmarked trail into Kharma Valley. There was always a small fear of getting lost, but sunshine and the open view kept pulling us forward.

We stayed with the landscape for another half hour before turning back. The lightness of that first sunny trek is what these photographs keep.