Paradise at 13,000 feet

A series of heavy snowfalls in Kashmir over the past few weeks has attracted hundreds of domestic and foreign ski tourists to Gulmarg, which boasts the worlds highest gandola chairlift touching a height of 13,600 ft.

Image: A Kashmiri youth takes to the slopes at The Gulmarg Ski Resort, some 55kms north of Srinagar.

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Photograph: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP/Getty Images