highest road

“The temperatures drop to as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius during the winter, while in the peak of summer it goes to about 12 degrees. Working in these conditions can be a herculean task, adding to which is the fact that glaciers shift constantly as the snow melts.”

The motorable road in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir is between the Chisumle and Demchok villages, not very far from the Indo-China border and roughly 230 kilometres away from Leh.