The year's first snowfalls in India are considered to occur in this town some 8,694 feet up in the Pir Panjal Range of the western Himalayas, some 55 kilometres from Kashmir's largest city, Srinigar. The nearby slopes reach as high as 10,500 feet - making this India's highest-altitude winter resort - and the valley has a cable car known as the Gulmarg Gondola, the highest in Asia. So not surprisingly, the valley is a popular adventure spot for skiing, heliskiing, snowboarding, and sledding.
Read more in Tripatini contributor Kiros Travels´ post India´s Top 5 Winter-Adventure Destinations.
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