I was in Kashmir in the January of 2002, Scoto - took a wrong turn on the way to Murray. Beautiful, treed mountains with the Himalayas in the distance, now spoiled by human feces and plastic chocking the creeks. First village we came to, inching the Suzuki Kyber through the crowd, a guy pulls a pistol next to the car and shoots the guy he was arguing with in the head - welcome to Shangri la. Not sure anywhere will ever be safe from the stress of human stupidity, greed, hate and disrespect.
