The walls are near vertical cliffs up to 600 m high and the
Zanskar River (a tributary of the
Indus) flows in a narrow gorge that is only wide in places. The overall distance is approximately – an average trekker walks per day. The best time to do the Chadar trek is January to February, when the temperature during the winters drops sometimes to -30 to -35 degrees. Chadar trek starts from
Chilling however with time the organisers tend to drive ahead to about 1 km away from the first camp at Tilad Sumdo (10,390 ft) or motorable
Shingra Koma. Over the next days the trek moves to higher camps via
Tsomo Paldar and
Tibb cave to
Nerak (11,150 ft). Nerak is the frozen waterfall and the return point of the trek, after this trekkers traverse back to the Shingra Koma starting point. There are other variations of the trek which go until
Lingshed, while a bigger version goes to
Padum over almost 14 days. ==Modern road==