Driving the Srinagar-Leh Highway

Look closely, there is a highway © A. Harrison

I drove through a landscape both harsh and barren. Rocks jutted into the air, as the unending grind of the continental shelves gave amazing shapes to the mountains.

On leaving Srinagar, it wasn’t long until the highway linking Kashmir with Ladakh came to mountains — real, snow-covered mountains. At first the slopes were covered with pine trees, but the land became progressively barren as we reached the dry…