’Imagine if your family had lived in the mountains for a thousand years or more, what effect would that have upon your mind and your thinking?’

In 1976 James Crowden left his career in the British army and travelled to Ladakh in the Northern Himalaya, one of the most remote parts of the world. The Frozen River is his extraordinary account of the time he spent there, living alongside the Zangskari people, before the arrival of roads and mass tourism.

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