Travel scribbles

I must have some irreversible attachment with Ladakh. I was there in September and I have just returned from there today. This time, I went for Chadar trek. The planned route was - Zok to Tilat Sumdo to Shingra Koma to Tsomo to Dibb to Nerak However, As I learned in the last few days, Trekking in the Zanskar valley is highly unpredictable. To beat the Chadar, you have to become the chadar. Cold, constantly reformed, hard. My perception of cold also kept changing on a daily basis. I think that is the USP of this trek. Dealing with extreme cold is part of the adventure. It was fun watching the Zanskaris deal with it though. Whats routine for them is adventure for us. I wonder if enough people realize that. They probably do. We couldn't make it past Tsomo due to the Chadar not having formed from there on. There was an alternate route via the rock patches on the side of the river but even after it, there didn't seem much to keep any hopes of progress alive. Howeve