mountaintops

Updated: May 18, 2025

'It's the oddest place imaginable, and in many ways the most delightful, Madeline wrote to her sister Adele, 'this microcosm of Indian official society withdrawn from all the world, and playing at being a municipality on three Himalayan mountaintops. You can't imagine its individuality, its airy, unsubstantial, superior poise.

Sara Jeannette Duncan - The Pool in the Desert