After several days acclimatising in Leh it was finally time to set off. I still wasn’t sleeping properly at altitude, but each night was getting a little better than the last. My excitement was tempered by a touch of apprehension — eight days without a shower or flushing toilets, and a new group of strangers […]| Randomwire
I’d arranged a driver for a day trip to Alchi, with stops at several monasteries en route. At 9 am Rigzin pulled up outside my hotel and we set off west along the Indus Valley – a landscape of stark cliffs and oasis villages that is among the world’s oldest continuously inhabited regions, once carrying […]| Randomwire
At the end of my HexaTrek thru-hike in July, I hinted at further adventures to come, though at the time I didn’t have any concrete plans.| Randomwire