When did you first come to Kashmir?
I came in 1989 with John Falkiner (Australian mountain guide based in Verbier). We brought a crew of 9 with 2 photographers, 1 film cameraman, 1 tri-pod wallah, and 5 telemark skiers(ourselves) and spent 6 weeks skinning up Affarwhat (before the gondola, before the war). Brian Dyson and Belinda Jones from Wanaka were the ONLY westerners at Gulmarg when we arrived. The little poma lifts and the little chair were working but no one around.