Ladakh
is a land like no other. Bounded by two of the world's mightiest mountain
ranges, the Great Himalaya and the Karakoram, it lies athwart two
other, the Ladakh range and the Zanskar range.
In geological terms, this is a young land, formed only a few million
years ago by the buckling and folding of the earth's crust as the
Indian sub-continent pushed with irresistible force against the immovable
mass of Asia. Its basic contours, uplifted by these unimaginable tectonic
movements, have been modified over the millennia by the opposite process
of erosion, sculpted into the form we see today by wind and water. |
