Ladakh is a mountaineers delight with numerous mountain ranges all across the region. The most famous and easily accessible is the Stok Kangri at 6140 metres. Other peaks in the area include Golaib Kangri and Matho West. The Kang Yatse Peak (6400 metres) stands southeast of Leh and is reached by the famous Markha Trek. The Nun Kun (7135m and 7085m) massif is one of the greatest Himalayan ranges and is easily accessible from Parkachik on the Kargil-Padum road. It is considered one of the most challenging climbing destinations in the Great Himalayas.

The Nun Kun massif is mainly surrounded by many high peaks like White Needle 6600m and Pinnacle at 6930m

Lungser at 6666m Chamser at 6620m Mentok 6250m and Mentok II at 6210m lie about 240 kilometres from Leh in the Rupshu Valley around the Tso Moriri Lake. Lungser is the highest peak in Ladakh but is relatively easy to climb and extremely popular with climbers.

( NOTE: All expeditions attempting peaks in the region require permission from the Indian Mountaineering Federation.)

As a man who has spent his life responding to the challenges of the mountains, I would like to offer you an opportunity to share in an adventure that captures the essence of the mountaineering experience. Too often mountaineering is judged by success or failure, where the mountain is "conquered" or a climber is "defeated" More perceptively, the mountain is eternally victorious and a climber who has tested himself physically, emotionally and spiritually, will always come away from the experience fulfilled.

Over the last fifteen years, after numerous expeditions on many of the highest mountains in the Himalaya, I have come to the inevitable conclusion that memorable times have not necessarily been on the summits themselves, but rather when I ceased to focus on the summit and simply "opened my eyes". The satisfaction of working within a team of friends; whether running Tibetan yak train into base camp or on a summit push, has equal relevance to my personal experience

From that philosophy, I have created few different adventures; different in intensity, yet equal in opportunity. They are:

• A major expedition on a 7000 meter (23, 000ft) Himalayan peak.

• A trek through the stark moonscape of the Ladakhi Himalayas, culminating in an ascent of 21,000 foot KANG YATSE, the highest peak in the Markha Valley.

• A fourteen day trek from the spectacular setting of Lamayuru Monastery, over the snow covered Kanji La (mountain pass of 17,000 ft) to the glacial base camp of the famous twin peaks of NUN-KUN. This magnificent twenty three thousand foot Himalayan wall is the highest and most impressive massif in all of Ladakh or Lhalung Peak - 6520 m can be possible from Rangdum.

• Stok Kangri expedition of 17 days across Markha Valley, starting from Chilling.

• Twelve to Sixteen days with trek to one of the peeks around Tsomoriri.