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March 22, 2013

Kashmir has some of the greatest skiing on earth

By SEBASTIAN ABBOT
Associated Press

AP Photo/Kevin Frayer [enlarge]
A snowboarder rides in the back-country at Gulmarg, a ski resort nestled in the Himalayan mountains in Indian-held Kashmir.

GULMARG, India — There are very few ski resorts in the world where you see a soldier in uniform waiting for the gondola with a snowboard in one hand and an AK-47 in the other.


 
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