
Ke La
The print
Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.
Shipping & returns
Printed in 2 to 5 business days, then 3 to 5 in transit within the US, rolled in a sturdy tube. Free US shipping; outside the US, shipping is calculated at checkout. 14-day reprint-or-refund guarantee, any reason, no return shipping. You have 1 hour after checkout to change trail, style or size, just reply to your confirmation email. Full returns policy.
About the Ke La trail
7,479 feet of elevation gain over 24.4 miles: that is Ke La, an out-and-back in Hemis National Park running between 11,312 and 18,638 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 46 percent, against an average of 307 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band. The nearest town is Choglamsar, 19 miles away.
The area
Hemis National Park, a high-elevation national park near Hemis in the Leh district of Ladakh in India, is located 50 km (31 mi) from Leh town, the capitals of Ladakh. Globally famous for its endangered snow leopards, it has the highest density of them in any protected area in the world.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Phuhmi 8.3
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Trail geometry and place names for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data.