Mortal · All traditions · The Himalaya · Kashmir, 1663
Francois Bernier
The French physician who came to Kashmir with Aurangzeb in 1663 and wrote of a grotto full of wonderful congelations, which the editor Vincent A. Smith identified as the Amarnath cave; the first European mention of it.
Sources: Amarnath Temple, Wikipedia (the Amarnath Yatra page is the same article); History of the Amarnath Pilgrimage (ikashmir.net; partisan page, sourced 'Wikipedia') · see Francois Bernier's web