LADAKH 2023 TAPPA 1: Stok - Campo 1 lungo la Stok Valley.
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 5.03 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,768 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 154 ft
- Max elevation
- 13,887 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 11,648 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 4 hours 4 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3225
- Uploaded
- August 22, 2023
- Recorded
- August 2023
near Stak, Ladakh (India)
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After the first two days in Leh (3,600 m) to get the body used to the altitude and try to avoid the first "altitude sickness", the time has finally come to get going.
Departure at 8:30 with a "Safari" van from our accommodation in Leh (summer capital of the Ladakh region) towards Stok; to reach it we have to deal with the "wild" traffic of the city (in Ladakh the law applies that whoever honks the loudest has precedence), along rough roads full of soldiers, in that border region often disputed between India and China.
Having reached Stok, the porters await us for the start of our exciting (it really was) high-altitude journey.
Unloaded the bags with the necessary for the tented camps from the bus and loaded the backpacks with what will be needed for the day, we set off; thus we leave the porters intent on basting the 15 horses and loading the necessary for the base camps that we will do for the next 9 days.
Today's route is simple and with very little difference in altitude (despite the considerable altitude of 3,700m above sea level) it takes us first to skirt the Stok stream and then to descend into its bed.
Due to the change in the course of the river, a small section of the path is not passable and we have to make a ford in a fairly impetuous point (it will be only the first of a long series, but we'll talk about it later).
After this somewhat complicated part, we continue our journey and after a short uphill stretch, among beautiful mountains with fabulous colors, we see our first base camp a little further up, we will sleep in a corner of paradise.
We help the porters set up their personal tents (the canteen and kitchen tent are already ready) and then we allow ourselves a bit of relaxation walking around the camp, trying to get used to the high altitude, with a slight headache due to the quote.
Departure at 8:30 with a "Safari" van from our accommodation in Leh (summer capital of the Ladakh region) towards Stok; to reach it we have to deal with the "wild" traffic of the city (in Ladakh the law applies that whoever honks the loudest has precedence), along rough roads full of soldiers, in that border region often disputed between India and China.
Having reached Stok, the porters await us for the start of our exciting (it really was) high-altitude journey.
Unloaded the bags with the necessary for the tented camps from the bus and loaded the backpacks with what will be needed for the day, we set off; thus we leave the porters intent on basting the 15 horses and loading the necessary for the base camps that we will do for the next 9 days.
Today's route is simple and with very little difference in altitude (despite the considerable altitude of 3,700m above sea level) it takes us first to skirt the Stok stream and then to descend into its bed.
Due to the change in the course of the river, a small section of the path is not passable and we have to make a ford in a fairly impetuous point (it will be only the first of a long series, but we'll talk about it later).
After this somewhat complicated part, we continue our journey and after a short uphill stretch, among beautiful mountains with fabulous colors, we see our first base camp a little further up, we will sleep in a corner of paradise.
We help the porters set up their personal tents (the canteen and kitchen tent are already ready) and then we allow ourselves a bit of relaxation walking around the camp, trying to get used to the high altitude, with a slight headache due to the quote.
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