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Bawa, Manmohan Singh

Tourist & trekking guide to Ladakh and Zanskar: including Karakoram & Srinagar valley/ Tourist and trekking guide to Ladakh and Zanskar Manmohan Singh Bawa - New Delhi : Indus Pub. Co., 2007. - 206 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. (some col.), maps; 23 cm.

Includes index.

1. The Himalaya
The Romance of Trekking
2. Ladakh: History and the Past
3. Preparations for Trekking
Trekking in the Indian Himalaya
Advance Planning and Preparations
Options and Types of Treks
Adventure Tour Operators in Delhi
4. Health and Medicine during Trekking
5. Leh, a Town of Contrasts
Access and Roads
Christianity and Moravian Missionaries
Monasteries and Gompas
Prominent Passes
Prominent Peaks
6. Practical Information
Climate
Places to Stay
Manah-Leh by Road
Evacuation of Casualties
Tourist Information
Language
WadUfe
7. Trekking in and Aroimd Leh
Treks and Climbing
8. Pangong Tso, Zanskar and Kargil
9. Rupshu
Tso Moriri
Karzok
Gya
Changpas of Rupshu
Treks in Rupshu
Treks between Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh
10. Nubra and Shyok Valleys
Sumur
Panamic
Diskit
Hunder
11. Eastern Karakoram
Siachen Glacier
Karakoram Pass
Saser Kangri
12. Srinagar Valley
Background and History
Treks in Kashmir Valley

ISBN: 8173872007

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hiking--India--Ladākh
Hiking--India--Zanskar

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Ladākh (India)
Zanskar (India)

Dewey Class. No.: 910.9546 / BAW/T