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From its highest pass – 5,350m Taglang La – the highway plunges into the Indus
Valley amid typical Ladakhi scenes of mud homes and green barley fields laid out
beneath Buddhist monasteries that seem to balance atop serrated mountain ridges

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Once in Leh, many adventurous cyclists are tempted into another day of riding to
Khardung La, a pass 40km from the city that is touted as the “highest motorable
road in the world”. Here a cyclist nears the pass, which is claimed to be 5,602m
above sea level, though GPS surveys in recent years have suggested it may be as
low as 5,359m. Even at a minimum, however, Khardung La is a 1,800m climb from
the city