5–6 days
Markha Valley Trek
Ladakh's premier long-distance trek through Hemis National Park, crossing the 5,260-metre Kongmaru La to sweeping views of Kang Yatse.
5–6 days
- 5–6 days
- Duration
About this trek
This 71.5-km point-to-point trek through Ladakh's Hemis National Park is typically completed in 5 to 6 segments over as many days. Starting in Chilling and finishing in Hemis, the route crosses high-altitude desert terrain with dramatic canyon walls, traditional Buddhist villages, ancient monasteries and vibrant prayer flags, before climbing to the 5,260-metre Kongmaru La pass with sweeping views of the Kang Yatse peaks. Most trekkers travel west to east for better acclimatisation.
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Route & trail
No surveyed route yet.
This trek has not been digitised, so there is no map, no elevation profile and no checkpoint list for it. Everything else on this page is editor-checked information about the walk itself.
Safety & conditions
Getting there
Gear checklist
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The Kashmir Explorer app keeps the same checklist on your account and inside the offline Trek Pack.
Photographs
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Photography for this route has not been added yet. The map and elevation profile above still apply.
No trekker reports yet.
Conditions on this route change week to week. If you walk it, a short report on pass snow and river levels genuinely helps the next group — reports are posted from the Kashmir Explorer app.