A photograph of stacked stone cairns on a rocky, gravel mountain slope under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. Several tall piles of flat, layered stones rise from the scree, the largest in the foreground and a smaller one at the upper left, with distant brown mountains behind. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of stacked stone cairns on a rocky, gravel mountain slope under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. Several tall piles of flat, layered stones rise from the scree, the largest in the foreground and a smaller one at the upper left, with distant brown mountains behind. No people are visible.

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A photograph of a tall cairn of flat stacked stones on a rocky, gravelly mountain slope under a blue sky with scattered white clouds. Smaller stone cairns stand nearby, and distant brown mountains rise on the horizon. No people are visible.

A photograph of a tall cairn of stacked grey and brown stones in the foreground on the left, some stones with orange lichen, beside a green grassy valley with a small meandering stream. Behind, a barren tan mountainside rises, and a snow-capped peak with a pointed white summit stands in the distance under a blue sky with clouds. No people are visible in the scene.

August 06 2011

August 06 2011

A high-altitude rocky meadow with many small stacked stone cairns standing among patches of grass and scattered boulders. A dirt footpath winds through the stones. Two small figures in the far upper left, one in red and one in white, walk on the slope beside a purple umbrella. No deity murti, throne or ritual objects are visible, and no person is clearly identifiable as a person.

August 09 2012

A photograph on a grassy highland meadow with scattered grey and white stones and small yellow flowers. A single person in a blue long-sleeved top and khaki trousers, wearing a brown wide-brimmed hat, kneels beside a stream, stacking small flat stones into two cairns. Stream water runs across the pebbled ground in the foreground, and a green hillside rises behind.

Landscape photograph, rotated sideways, of a rocky mountain valley under a grey, cloudy sky. Large weathered boulders with pale and reddish patches are clustered on a grassy strip beside a gravel path at right. Brown and grey mountain slopes rise in the background. No people or ritual activity are visible.

A photograph of a rugged, barren mountain landscape under a deep blue sky. A pyramid-shaped snow-capped peak rises above a massive layered brown cliff face, with streaks of erosion down its sides. In the foreground, large weathered boulders and a small stone cairn sit beside a wide, braided river channel flowing across a pale gravel valley. Soft white clouds drift across the sky. No people or ritual activity are visible.

August 06 2011

A rugged brown rock cliff rises behind a stony hillside with many strings of colourful prayer flags stretched diagonally across the rock face. In the lower left, a figure in orange robes walks along a rocky path among boulders and scrubby green plants. To the right stands a small stone building with dark doorways and openings, beside a low stone wall. Clouds drift across a blue sky above the high mountain terrain.