Geography

Tibet to the east, Lahaul and Spiti to the south, Jammu and Kashmir to the west, and Xinjiang's trans–Kunlun area to the north. Baltistan used to be part of Ladakh, which is currently controlled by Pakistan.

The folding of the Indian plate into the relatively immobile Eurasian Plate created the mountain ranges in this region over a 45-million-year period. The drift is continuing, triggering earthquakes in the Himalayan region on a regular basis.

Except for Shey, Leh, Basgo, and Tingmosgang, most of Ladakh's main towns are located around the Indus River. Only a small portion of the Indus River runs through Ladakh, the rest flows through Pakistan. The Siachin Glacier is located near the disputed India-Pakistan border in the Himalaya Mountains' eastern Karakoram region. The Karakoram mountain separates China from the Indian subcontinent and serves as a huge watershed. It's a 70-kilometer-long ice sheet. It is the Karakoram's longest and the world's second-longest non-polar glacier. It comes down from a height of 5,753 feet and covers areas of India and China. Many passes, ranging in elevation from 17,880 to 25,330 feet above sea level, can be found in the region. At a height of 25,171 feet, Kangri is Ladakh's tallest peak.

About Ladakh

Ladakh is a land abundant in utterly natural features, lying in a vast and majestic terrain. It is pierced by two additional parallel chains, the Ladakh Range and the Zanskar Range, and is bounded by two of the world's foremost mountain peaks, the Karakoram in the north and the Great Himalaya in the south. This is a young land in geological terms, having formed about a few million years ago. Its basic contours, which were erected by tectonic movements, have been modified over millennia by wind and water erosion, shaping it into the structure we see today. Ladakh was once covered by an extensive lake system, relics of which still can be discovered on the south-east plateaux of Rupshu and Chushul, in the drainage basins or lakes of Tso-moriri, Tso-Kar, and Pangong-Tso, sheltered from the rain-bearing clouds of the Indian monsoon by the barrier of the Great Himalaya. Yet, winter snowfall is the main supply of water.

On the Himalayas ' northern slopes, Dras, Zanskar, and the Suru Valley probably get a lot of snow in the winter, which feeds the glaciers, which feed the fields in the summer with meltwater carried down by streams. Snow on the peaks is essentially the only source of water for the majority of the region. The peaks' snow is almost the only source of water. The inhabitants pray not for rain, but for the sun to melt the glaciers and replenish their water as the crops flourish. Ladakh is placed in the Karakoram Range at altitudes ranging from 9,000 feet (2750 m) at Kargil to 25,170 feet (7,672 m) at Saser Kangrin more intense than it does at lower altitudes. Only in Ladakh is it claimed that a man sitting in the sun with his feet in the shade can get simultaneous sunstroke and frostbite!