Photographs of Ladakh by Chris Hunkeler

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  Chris Hunkeler in Markha Valley, Ladakh
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  Chris Hunkeler in Markha Valley, Ladakh

Leh གླེ

I spent a few days in Leh before starting the trek so that my body would adjust to the altitude.

 See also category: Leh.

Hotel Omasila

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Shanti Stupa

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Downtown

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Leh Palace

 See also category: Leh Palace.

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Namgyal Tsemo

 See also category: Namgyal Tsemo Monastery.

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Hall of Fame

 See also category: Hall of Fame, Leh.

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Markha Valley Trek

 See also category: Markha Valley trek.

1st day : 5 july 2018 - From Spituk to Zinchen

Zinchen (aka Zingchen / Zinchan / Jingchan)

ཞིང་ཆེན་ = big field, large field, farmland.

Camera location	34° 06′ 03″ N, 77° 24′ 38.4″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	34.100833; 77.410666

 See also category: Zinchen.

On day one, we drove from Leh to Spituk, stopping briefly for a few provisions along the way. From Spituk, we drove along Spituk-Zinchen Road and at some point, our driver stopped to drop off me and my guide, Sonam Gyalson. The idea was for the first day to be a test if I was even capable of walking a distance at altitude. We simply walked along Spituk-Zinchen Road until we got to our camping area shortly after 11 am. After a relaxing lunch, I explored the camp for a while and then wandered a little further afield along a mountainside. Sonam Gyalson follows Padma Yang Chen to her home to purchase mint and ginger so that he may brew tea for me. Later in the afternoon, I took tea by the stream.

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  Indus River
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  approaching Zinchen
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  Zinchen oasis 2018-07-05 14:14
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  Padma Homestay 2018-07-05 14:23
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2nd day : 6 july 2018 - From Zinchen to Ganda La Base Camp

Rumbak - Yurutse - Ganda La Base Camp

 See also category: Rumbak.

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3rd day : 7 july 2018 - From Ganda La Base Camp to Skiu Campsite

Skiu (aka Skyu སྐྱུ)

Skyu-Kaya : སྐྱུ་ཀ་ཡ

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  vivo Y51L
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  Skiu (aka Skyu) 2018-07-07 15:17
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  Markha River 2018-07-07 17:23
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4th day : 8 july 2018 - From Skiu to Markha མར་མཁའ / དམར་ཁ / མར་ཁ

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  Footbridge 2018-07-08 10:02
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  Hamoursa Tea tent & Campsite in Nakdi 2018-07-08 10:13
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  Hamoursa Tea tent & Campsite in Nakdi 2018-07-08 10:14
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  Village Chalak (aka Chaluk) 2018-07-08 12:17
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  NIKON D810

5th day : 9 july 2018 - From Markha to Hangkar

Markha

 See also category: Markha.

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  NIKON D810
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  NIKON D810
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  NIKON D810
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  Markha 2018-07-09 08:37
  NIKON D810

Techa Gompa (near Umlung འོ་མ་ལུང)

aka Tsetse / Tetsa / Tacha

 See also category: Techa Gompa.

Camera location	33° 52′ 26.32″ N, 77° 27′ 08.86″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	33.873977; 77.452460

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Hankar (aka Hangkar)

The etymology of the last village in the direction of Nyimaling, Hankar, could come from གངས་ gangs, “glacier”, and དཀར་པོ་ dkar-po, “white”.(An Archaeological Account of the Markha Valley, Ladakh. By Quentin Devers and Martin Vernier, page 64)

Camera location	33° 49′ 50.93″ N, 77° 30′ 27.83″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	33.830813; 77.507730

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Tachungtse Camp

Ta-jung-tse / tha-chung-tse / thochuntse
ཐ་ཆུང = little one, very small
Other version བྲག་ཆུང takchung = little rock
རྩེ = peak
Ce tout petit sommet est sans doute celui que l'on peut voir juste au sud du camp, qui ressemble à une montagne miniature

Camera location	33° 48′ 42.43″ N, 77° 32′ 01.87″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	33.811785; 77.533852

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6th day : 10 july 2018 - From Hangkar to Nimaling ཉི་མ་གླིང

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7th day : 11 july 2018 - From Nimaling to Chuskurmo via Kongmaru La

Kongmaru La Pass

(aka Konmaru La / Gongmaru La)

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8th day : 12 july 2018 - From Chuskurmo to Shang Sumdo and return to Leh by jeep

Chuskurmo (aka Chu-skyur-mo which means sour water) Campsite

sources de sulfure d'hydrogène , gaz acide

བོད་ཡིག: ཆུ་སྐྱུར་མོ

ཆུ་ = water

སྐྱུར་མོ་ = sour

Camera location	33° 49′ 31.99″ N, 77° 39′ 07.56″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	33.825554; 77.652099

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Shang Sumdo

 See also categories: Shang Sumdo and Mustard fields in India.

Camera location	33° 51′ 17.19″ N, 77° 42′ 30.04″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	33.854775; 77.708345

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