Sandipan Mukherjee, a schoolteacher by profession and photographer by passion, showcased a series of portraits of people he met in the mountains. Mukherjee made six trips to Nubra Valley in Ladakh ...

Ladakh is often called the "Land of High Passes" because it's full of tall mountains and stunning scenery ... the weather is pleasant and most of the mountain passes are open.

White clouds, white snow and the black of exposed mountain tops ... As the plane descends into the capital of Ladakh, in the Indian-controlled Kashmir region, signs of life appear.

The high mountains are a good ... which are commercial climbing peaks in Ladakh, were relatively bare this season. But what I saw on Kun, a 7,077-metre mountain in the Suru Valley near Kargil ...