With altitudes ranging from about 9,000-ft (2750m) at Kargil to 25,000-ft at Saser Kangri in the Karakoram, Ladakh is a high altitude deser...

Widespread green fields, open water surface of Indus and rising temperature provided favourable conditions for cloud formation.

Remoteness is intrinsic to Leh's charm, and let us hope - in vain - that it would stay that way...