A snow leopard on open snow, the scree breaking up its outline

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Eleven days in Ulley: what we actually photographed

Tarun Siwach 04 Mar 2026 14 min read

Eleven days above the Indus, and the honest count is four sightings.

A snow leopard on open snow, the scree breaking up its outline
Ulley, third morning 600mm · f/4 · 1/500 · ISO 1600Placeholder frame

What follows is the frame-by-frame account.

Photographs by Tarun Siwach

Ulley, February 2026