In the golden light of sunset, as day fades into night, a family of pilgrims at the #KasarDevi Temple are happily busy in taking photos of each other, three generations enjoying the joys of photography, making memories while living in the moment. #Almora #Kumaon #Uttarakhand

An ancient, exuberant bouganvillea overwhelms signage that expresses a sentiment which is shared not only by visitors but also residents. #Almora #Kumaon #Uttarakhand

"I had only one ambition: to become a true seafaring adventurer. So much so that nothing else mattered to me. I never reasonably considered leading a settled life." 'Gypsy Afloat' (1942), Ella Maillart #Photography #Books #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Bains des Pâquis, Geneva, 12 May to 26 June 2026. An exhibition retracing the Lake Geneva Odyssey of Ella Maillart and Hermine de Saussure #Photography #Travel #Adventure #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Ella Maillart and Hermine de Saussure, Toulon, France after crossing to Corsica aboard Perlette, 1923. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Portrait #Toulon #France #Travel #Adventure #EllaMaillart #HermineDeSaussure #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

With Alain Gerbault (1893-1941) before his first solo transatlantic crossing (101 days) from Gibraltar to New York on Firecrest, Cannes, 1923. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Adventure #EllaMaillart #AlainGerbault #Cannes #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Ella 'Kini' Maillart (20) and Hermine 'Miette' de Saussure (22) aboard the 7.2 m Perlette, which they sailed alone over 6 months along the Côte d'Azur, 1923. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Portrait #EllaMaillart #HermineDeSaussure #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Hermine 'Miette' de Saussure (1901-84), Creux-de-Genthod, Geneva, where Ella first met her in 1913. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Portrait #Geneva #Switzerland #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Ella Maillart, aged 10, Creux-de-Genthod, Geneva, Switzerland, 1913. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Portrait #Geneva #Switzerland #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Little 'Kini', Ella Maillart, aged 8, Geneva, Switzerland, 1911. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Portrait #Switzerland #Geneva #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Sailing #Skiing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Thronged with pilgrims, the #KasarDevi Temple remains a refreshingly natural, family friendly space, where the underlying silence and peace needs no externally imposed enforcement, and all are equally welcomed. #Almora #Kumaon #Uttarakhand

Mariel Jean-Brunhes Delamarre Marthe Oulié, Hermine de Saussure and Ella Maillart brushing their teeth on board the Bonita, Crete, 1925. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

'Ella Maillart With Two Naval Officers' on a sailing voyage with Hermine de Saussure from Cannes to Corsica aboard Perlette, 1923. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

'Ella Maillart, Yachtswoman: Free as Water', Carinne Bertola, Glénat Publishers, 2024. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Switzerland #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Ella Maillart (under hook) and Hermine de Saussure (at bow) aboard the 6.5 m Gypsy at the Évian International Regatta, 1923. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Switzerland #Sailing #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Ella Maillart (15) at the helm of the Monotype SNG, her first sailboat, Poodle II, 1918. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Sailing #Geneva #Switzerland #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

"I particularly want to understand the new aspirations of young people, those in their twenties, those who did not know the old world, those for whom the new state seems to have been built. To live with them, to touch living beings and to scoff at statistics." www.payot-rivages.fr/payot/livre/...

'Street Scene', Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR, 1930, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Moscow #Russia #USSR #Asia #CentralAsia #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Ella Maillart at the Moscow Rowing Club, USSR, 1930. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Moscow #Russia #USSR #Asia #CentralAsia #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

'My Street - Ostojenka', Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, USSR, 1930, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Moscow #Russia #USSR #Asia #CentralAsia #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Nothing frightened Ella Maillart. In 1973, then seventy years old, it was on the roof of her chalet that she answered questions on the spiritual and the sacred from Jean Thevenot who had come to meet her in Chandolin for the programme 'On The Roof Of The World'. www.rts.ch/archives/197...

Commemorative plaque on the building at 10 Avenue Gaspard-Vallette, Geneva where Ella Maillart lived half the year, the balance being at her chalet 'Atchala' in Chandolin, Valais, Switzerland. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #EllaMaillart #Travel #Adventure #Geneva #Chandolin #Switzerland

'Young Kazak Woman: Tashkent Train In Background,' Emba, Kazakhstan, 1932, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #EllaMaillart #Switzerland #Travel #Adventure #Kazakhstan #Turkestan #USSR #Soviet #CentralAsia

'The Kirghiz Woman Who Made Our Bread', Kara Kol, 1932, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #EllaMaillart #Kirghizstan #CentralAsia #Travel #Adventure #Turkestan

Ella Maillart And Siberian Husky. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Switzerland #Skiing #Alpine #Dog

Karakol, Soviet Kyrgyzstan, 1932, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #EllaMaillart #USSR #CentralAsia #Kyrkyzstan #SovietKirghizistan

"Femme chauffeur en panne avec sa camionnette Ford russe" (Woman driver broken down with her Russian Ford van), Moscow, 1930, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Adventure #EllaMaillart #Russia #Moscow

Tashkent, Cotton Harvest On A State Farm, 1932, Ella Maillart. "Her first Leica was given to her by Dr. Leitz himself, the head of Leica, impressed by the photographs she brought back from Frunze, Tashkent and Samarkand in Russian Turkestan without any official authorisation." #Photography #Travel

Camel Caravan, Tsaidam Desert, Qinghai, Republic of China, 1935, Ella Maillart. #Photography #Travel #TravelPhotography #China #Desert #Camel #EllaMaillart

Source of the Syr-Daria river and the summit of Sari-Tor (4946.9 m), Kyrgyzstan, 1932, Ella Maillart. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #EllaMaillart #Kyrgyzstan #USSR #Travel #Adventure

Official Olympic identification card issued to Ella Maillart for the 1924 Paris Summer Olympics. Finishing ninth in her event, she became the first woman in the world to helm a sailboat in Olympic competition. #EllaMaillart #Switzerland #Olympics #Paris #Photography #BlackAndWhite

An illustrated children's biography of Ella 'Kini' Maillart "From Switzerland to India, via Russia, Chinese Turkestan, and Afghanistan, through great journeys, great friendships, and profound reflections, Ella Maillart lived a life of passion and audacity." geraldinealibeu.com/kini-le-mond...

Letters To The Editor "Ella Maillart is better off in Karakol ... this lackluster exhibition at the Musée Rath, of which only the enormous poster on the facade possesses any graphic merit ... What a fiasco for the Musée Rath, for the Museum of Art and History." www.tdg.ch/lettre-du-jo...

“In Ella Maillart’s time, the yurts were very simple. Today they are equipped with solar panels. They have become more modern, as have their inhabitants, the shepherds, who now carry mobile phones with them.” www.swissinfo.ch/ger/kultur/e...

Ella Maillart (1903-97) holding a photo of herself in 1932 arriving in Tourtkoul (Turtkul), the then-capital of the Karakalpak Autonomous Republic within Soviet Uzbekistan. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Uzbekistan #Asia #CentralAsia

Ella Maillart arriving at Tourtkoul, Karakalpak Republic, Central Asia, 1932. #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #Travel #Traveller #Adventure #Adventurer #EllaMaillart #Uzbekistan #Asia #CentralAsia

Knife-grinder and his wheel, Moscow, USSR, 1930, Ella Maillart. #Russia #Photography #BlackAndWhite #EllaMaillart #Travel

Ella Maillart, Kizil Kum desert, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, 1932. "Their restlessness attracts me. Just like with sailors (…) Every arrival is actually a new signal to depart …" 'Turkestan Solo: A Woman on Her Way to Samarkand' #EllaMaillart #Kazakhstan #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Travel

"I venture the following definition of the traveler: The true traveler is someone who is driven to set out for physical, aesthetic, intellectual, and spiritual reasons." - Ella Maillart www.journal21.ch/artikel/reis... #EllaMaillart #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Russia #Moscow #Rowing #Travel

Ella Maillart, 'Atchala', Chandolin, Valais, Switzerland, 1953. #EllaMaillart #Switzerland #Photography #BlackAndWhite

Ella Maillart, Moscow, Russia, 1930. #EllaMaillart #Switzerland #Russia #Rowing #Photography #BlackAndWhite

Pilgrims at a Shiva temple, Patan, Nepal. Ella Maillart. #EllaMaillart #Photography #BlackAndWhite #Nepal

Ella Maillart at 'Atchala', Chandolin, Switzerland, 1953, Hans von Meiss-Tufen.

Panna Meena ka Kund, Amer, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 1972, Ella Maillart.

Rajarani Temple, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, 1962, Ella Maillart.

"This time her companion is a young woman, Annemarie Schwarzenbach (‘Christina’) in the grip of a drug addiction from which Maillart desperately tries to wean her." thespace.ink/reviews/book...

"Focusing on Maillart’s four major journeys to Asia in the 1930s, the exhibition sets her images in dialogue with her writings and shows how her work serves as a record of a pivotal time in global history." www.meer.com/en/104879-ph...

"I had lost the intense joy, the intoxication, of blazing my own trail and the proud sense of being able to get through alone, to which I had become accustomed." marketgardenreader.wordpress.com/2024/05/15/f...

A Fearless Swiss Woman: the Wild Travels of Ella Maillart "Ella Maillart's life is as exciting as an adventure novel, yet she is virtually unknown in German-speaking Switzerland." 28 minutes (in German) www.srf.ch/kultur/gesel...

"There is a significant probability that many readers of this fine publication may not be familiar with the Swiss travel writer, photographer, World Championship and Olympic sportswoman in multiple events and adventurer known as Ella Maillart." www.wallofsoundau.com/reviews/rome...