“At 2 AM, the temperature plummeted to minus twenty-two. Inside our glass dome, cedarwood crackled in the stove while the entire galactic arm of the Milky Way poured across our ceiling.”
We had been warned by everyone in London about Spiti’s brutal winters. But PK and his team did not merely insulate us against the frost—they transformed it into pure high-altitude poetry.
After an eight-hour traverse along frozen river canyons inside our heated Land Rover Defender, stepping into this geodesic dome felt like stepping into an impossible dream. Goose-down comforters, heated timber floorboards, hot spiced seabuckthorn tea, and zero noise save for the wind brushing against 14,000-foot granite cliffs. You do not just observe the stars here; you feel suspended inside them.
Clara & Marcus Sterling
Geneva, Switzerland • Spiti Winter Dome Expedition