Some photo’s from the trekking phase of the World Challenge trip to Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. Tso Moriri is a lake at 4500m, “Tso” is local dialect for lake. It’s a fair drive in on dirt roads, or just dirt in places, from the “main” road. It’s a fairly well know trekking area with a route over some high passes.

These are pashmina goats, I reckon this is the place to be a goat, as a male goat your outlook isn’t great in most places but around here your coat is as good as the females and you don’t even get sheared, just combed vigorously from time to time. The best stuff comes from the soft bit just under the chin in the spring as the winter coat is coming out. I just had to buy a handful of pashmina scarves as souvenirs.

This is a tent belonging to one of the migrant families moving with their yaks and goats, it’s a form of transhumance and it’s been practised without much change for thousands of years around here. It’s a hard life to live up here though, we’re creatures of the African plains, spending millennia hunting and being hunted, we’re not adapted for life at 5000m for any length of time.