I spoke to a friend in Kaza today, it was snowing at the time. This has upset the farmers as they are preparing the land to plant peas, their mail cash crop.Chairman of Spiti Projects is about to travel to Kaza to plan our summer projects.  An architect wiil accompany her with a view of…

We are currently planning Spiti Project’s calendar for the year and the sunshine has me thinking of warm summer nights. Spiti Project’s is hosting an evening with William Dalrymple at the Royal Geographic Society on June 20th 2011. Supported by Global Enduro the evening plans to be full of surprises. To avoid disappointment please book…

The Losar festival has just been celebrated in Spiti, this is the Tibetan New Year festival which is held in November so that the royal families of Ladak and Spiti can be together before the high mountain passes close for the winter. This year  has been very frugal for the inhabitants of the Spiti Valley…

Dear Friends, Many thanks indeed for your huge support for Dan’s talk at the RGS on 2nd December. Many of you have made donations which are much appreciated. As it so happens with tube on that evening, many of you might not have been able to reach the RGS,  we feel the Gods must have…

Spiti didn’t make into the headlines these past months because of the floods in Ladakh, nonetheless the people of the Spiti Valley have suffered just as badly. Peas are the one cash crop farmed in the area, which was ruined by rain. What was harvested rotted in trucks unable to make the route to Delhi…