Zanskar (Articles)

• 1990 The Enjoyable Difference – Zansker Trek

  ‘YOU WILL BE standing in a queue to cross Shingo la.’ Mahavir Thakur at Manali mountaineering institute was advising us. ‘There are so many foreigners trekking to Zanskar that camp sites are crowded.  more details…

• 2014 Two Walks in the Kishtwar

  Our man in Bhaderwah assured us that all was currently peaceful in their part of Jammu and Kashmir. The floods in 2014 had been terrible, but Jammu had been spared.  more details…

• 2005 Pangpo La 

  On 16 July 1995 Harish Kapadia made the first ascent of Lungser Kangri (6666 m), the highest peak in Rupshu. Ladakh and took photos and bearings including one of a peak named Monto on the map. more details…

• 2009 Future is Here

  A mountaineer never retires. Like in other sports he does not hang up his boots and say I am done with the mountains.  And even like old soldiers, he does not fade away even.   more details…

• 2008 Zanskar Anyone

  Mountaineers usually give slide shows and narrate what they have done in the mountains – peaks they have seen, climbed, explored and the areas they have travelled. This always happens after their return. But how about a ‘futuristic’ slide show?  more details…

• 2009 Trekking in Kargil and Zanskar

  Sometime during the night, two distinct voices infiltrated my deep sleep. One was in tune. The other not. Exhausted from two days of airline travel, I was reluctant to allow this intrusion. But it persisted.   more details…