On the plane, the seat-back monitor’s topographical map of the flight course depicted the Kashmir Valley as a green, oval-shaped hole in the middle of white mountain graphics. As the captain announced our descent into Srinagar, The Himalaya were in view on the plane’s right. When I say they were on the plane’s right I mean that looking down I could see where the mosaic of snow-covered rice paddies ramped up to snowcapped, awesomely pointy peaks. But that is looking down. Looking out, level with the plane at ~25,000 feet, Nun Kun, one of the world's tallest mountains perched prominently over other giants above the clouds in the distance. At the plane’s left, the same rice paddy fiel... See full document!

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Kashmir	NCW	Document	Creative	1855	5	28-Mar-08
Om Namah Shivaya	NCW	Document	Critical	1769	4	28-Mar-08
Art Nouveau Window - Prague Cathedral	heartsutra	Picture	Creative	1644	4	7-Dec-07
Cranes of Berlin, as seen from a bus	heartsutra	Picture	Creative	1642	5	6-Dec-07
Wild Chase	lauralhm	Picture	Critical	1899	4.8	16-Oct-07
Swimmers	lauralhm	Picture	Critical	1771	4.75	4-Oct-07
Reindeer at Sunset on Baltic Sea	lauralhm	Picture	Critical	1793	3.33	4-Oct-07
Ice Break	lauralhm	Picture	Critical	1649	3.25	4-Oct-07
Baltic Sea, Finland	lauralhm	Picture	Critical	1709	3.67	4-Oct-07
Israel	ScrappyPat	Portfolio	Critical	1793	2.67	6-Jul-07
Dried Alpacas and Foxes from Witches	Guille de Soho	Picture	Critical	1844	3.67	26-May-07
Perito Moreno	Guille de Soho	Picture	Creative	1860	4.2	21-Apr-07
Machu Picchu Assembly	Guille de Soho	Portfolio	Critical	1745	3.4	20-Apr-07
Snakes on a Plain	Mario Mamani	Video	Creative	1738	2.33	27-Mar-07
The Train Cemetery of Uyuni, Bolivia	Guille de Soho	Picture	Creative	1933	4.75	23-Feb-07
Green Light	Guille de Soho	Picture	Creative	2536	4.86	19-Feb-07
Alpaca fetus	Guille de Soho	Picture	Critical	2488	3.5	19-Feb-07
Cambodian Sunset	Raphael	Picture	Critical	1888	2.5	19-Feb-07
Central Market, Phnom Penh	Raphael	Picture	Critical	1958	3	16-Feb-07