2024-12-22T08:09:39-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/46041375/a-new-road-to-zanskar Nam Henderson 2012-04-23T19:01:00-04:00 >2012-04-25T13:22:22-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/rt/rtwlio4q0l6tmeaj.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The only exception is in the early months of the year, when the plummeting temperatures (-30&deg;C is not uncommon) allow the Zanskar river to freeze and the pathless gorge to be negotiated. If you do not mind walking on the ice, that is.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Paul Howard reports that the remote Himalayan region of Zanskar accessible only by frozen river, ice-bridge for as much as half the year will be connected to the outside via a new road, giving the community a permanent connection.</p> <p> <img alt="" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif">Earlier this year <a href="http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/travel/a-himalayan-highway-on-the-frozen-zanskar-river.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jonathan Mingle trekked "the Chadar"</a>,&nbsp;a 40-mile journey mostly spent walking on the frozen, sometimes disconcertingly thin surface of the Zanskar River, for the NYT Travel section.</p>