Thinking about it now, I don’t think I have ever been refused a photograph by anyone I have sat and drank tea with. In India it is an essential ice breaker; a liquid preamble to any really meaningful social discourse and a chance for your host to get the measure of you.

All the classic Himalayan pilgrimages are, by the very nature of their high altitude destinations, really quite arduous and challenging. I therefore knew what to expect when I set out from the small village of Gangotri to walk up to [...]

Nick tells the story behind the photograph of the sadhus gathered for the Kumbh Mela and how he shot this picture the instant before they charged into the Ganges.