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The best time to do the Chadar trek is January to February, [4] when the temperature during the winters drops sometimes to -30 to -35 degrees. [ 5 ] Chadar trek starts from Chilling however with time the organisers tend to drive ahead to about 1 km away from the first camp at Tilad Sumdo (10,390 ft) or motorable Shingra Koma .
The average temperature is between minus 25 °C during day and minus 55 °C during the night. [ 4 ] Siachen Base Camp , which serves the northern and middle Siachen sectors, is one of the 2 bases for the Siachen region, and other base being just west of Thoise Air Base which serves the southern Siachen sector.
It is at a height of 10,800 feet (3,300 m) [2] Dras lies in the centre of the valley of the same name (Dras valley). Dras is 140 km from Srinagar and 63 km from Sonmarg . Kargil town is 58 km from Dras on the national highway NH 1 from Srinagar to Leh .
The Drang-Drung Glacier (also called Durung Drung Glacier) is a mountain glacier near the Pensi La pass on the Kargil-Zanskar Road [1] in the Kargil district of Ladakh in India. [ 2 ] The Drang-Drung Glacier is likely to be the largest glacier in Ladakh after the Siachen Glacier in the Karakoram Range , [ 3 ] with a maximum length of 23 km (14 ...
It falls from an altitude of 5,753 m (18,875 ft) above sea level at its head at Indira Col on the India–China border down to 3,620 m (11,875 ft) at its terminus. The entire Siachen Glacier, with all major passes, has been under the administration of India as part of the union territory of Ladakh , located in the Kashmir region since 1984 .
The Ladakh Range has no major peaks; its average height is a little less than 6,000 m (20,000 ft), and few of its passes are less than 5,000 m (16,000 ft). The Pangong range runs parallel to the Ladakh Range for about 100 km (62 mi) northwest from Chushul along the southern shore of the Pangong Lake .
A large number of peaks in Ladakh are still not open for climbing due to security reasons, as this region borders Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China in the North and East and Line Of Control (LOC) and The India–Pakistan AGPL Actual Ground Position Line.
Turtuk is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.It is a small village sandwiched between the Karakorum Range and the Himalayas, [1] [unreliable source?] and one of the northernmost villages of India, close to the Line of Control between India and Pakistan.