It looks like a really beautiful area! We went from about 500 feet above sea level to something like 7000 in one day. Then the next day we traveled to about 12,000 in the Rockies. I think the driving gave us time to get used to it. There were others who got altitude sickness.
Yeah, you can look up Ladakh on the map, its beyond Himalayas.
:) I thought 13,000 was pretty high, then I was looking at Everest the other day and I realized it's more than twice that high! Yikes!
we crossed two motorable pass: Khardung-La = 18,582 ft and Chang-La 17,688
Wow! That's impressive. I was just talking to someone on Hive a couple of weeks ago who said a friend of theirs did the motorbike through one of those passes in India I think. It looks amazing!