The Road is the main gateway to the basecamp of Kishtwar Kailash, a 6.451m mountain. To reach this trail, you can arrive to this area from the west, taking the road over the Rohtang Pass from Manali to the Chenab Valley and then following the Darlang Valley to the base of the mountain. The climb is simply terrible, with a notorius lack of oxygen that tests the organisms and a high degree of steepness. The area has been more or less closed to mountaineers for political reasons since the early 1990s. Residents of the Valley welcomed the opening of the road, as it represented a huge boost to commerce and tourism in the region whose dangerous, hard-to-travel terrain meant the area was cut off from tourism and other forms of economic development. The last 50km of road to the start of the ascent proved to be extremely scary. Words can’t describe the road and pictures don’t do it justice. Some tourists had dubbed the track the 'Almost Killer' Road.
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