It doesn’t really show up well, but the tree in the center apparently swallowed and digested another tree. i.e. It encased a tree that died and rotted.
Taken on June 10, 2015 in Great Himalayan National Park
Most of the snow that we saw during our trek last month was well above us, but we did have one day in which we had to cross through pockets of snow many times as we rounded a mountain at about 4,000 meters.