Sikkim Village Woman sit beside army jawan at Naga Relief camp in Mangan area in North Sikkim on September 23, 2011, after a 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit the region September 18. Rescue teams backed by army sappers using explosives tried to force their way to the remote epicentre of a powerful Himalayan earthquake that killed 67 people in India, Nepal and Tibet. Before the grim search for more victims can even begin, the main challenge is to reach the isolated, mountainous impact zone on the border between India"s northeastern Sikkim state and Nepal after the quak

Photographer: Bhaskar Mallick