The ‘village’ of Nimaling is actually a large tented camp lying in the base of a broad grassy valley at 4,800m, quite unlike the steep rocky gorge we has passed through earlier in the trek. As well as catering for the many trekkers on the Markha Valley trail, the camp is home to goat and yak herders who make a living here in the high mountains, and pikas: tiny mouse-like rodents that hide in burrows among the grassland.
After the sunny days and searing heat that we’d experienced on the rest of the trek, we were surprised to awake the following morning to find our campsite carpeted in snow. Nimaling marks the climax of the Markha Valley trek for the majority of tourists, who cross the 5,200m Konmaru La the following day, over into the Indus Valley, where they can grab a taxi back to Leh. We didn’t return to the Markha Valley either, but we had barely reached the halfway point of our own adventure, which I’ll describe in later videos.
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Thank you to Edita Horrell for additional video footage
1 мар 2024
