These furry creatures are high-altitude champions and can survive through Ladakh's cold, harsh winters, on little food or oxygen. But a new trickier challenge has come their way — the insensitive tourist
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We are a driven group of people from diverse backgrounds, bound by an abiding love for India’s natural world.
Imran Frozen
is a filmmaker, photographer and naturalist based in the Himalayas. He is lucky to have captured rare footage of the Eurasian lynx, Pallas’ cat, Himalayan brown bear and the snow leopard.
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