Ladakh is
a land like no other. Bounded by two of the world's mightiest
mountain ranges, the Great Himalaya and the Karakoram,
it lies athwart two other, the Ladakh range and the Zanskar
range.
In geological terms, this is a young
land, formed only a few million years ago by the buckling
and folding of the earth's crust as the Indian sub-continent
pushed with irresistible force against the immovable mass
of Asia. Its basic contours, uplifted by these unimaginable
tectonic movements, have been modified over the millennia
by the opposite process of erosion, sculpted into the
form we see today by wind and water.
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Ladakh lies at altitudes ranging
from about 9,000 feet (2750m) at Kargil to 25,170 feet
(7,672m) at Saser Kangri in the Karakoram. Thus summer
temperatures rarely exceed about 27 degree celcius in
the shade, while in winter they may plummet to minus 20
degree celcius even in Leh. Surprisingly, though, the
thin air makes the heat of the sun even more intense than
at lower altitudes; it is said that only in Ladakh can
a man sitting in the sun with his feet in the shade suffer
from sunstroke and frostbite at the same time!
