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Gas cartridge camping stoves and cartridges are available in Leh. It is fine to use them (and they cook faster than petrol stoves), but you cannot buy the cartridges anywhere outside Leh. If you go on a trek where most nights will be spent in villages, you may want to use a solid fuel stove and fuel tablets. These are unsuitable for cooking full meals, but can be useful for boiling water and making instant soup and so on along the way.

Relying on a campfire for cooking is almost impossible, as you will find hardly any wood, only dry shrubs and perennials. Dried horse and yak dung is also used for fuel by locals in the villages. Using this you can make a small fire and cook a meal, but it requires quite an effort and takes much time.

The camp in Nyimaling (Trek 8)

Don’t forget a couple of boxes of matches; lighters are usually unreliable, especially at high elevations. A candle is useful too.

The cooking equipment that you need depends on the food you take for the trek; you will certainly need no more than two pots, a lid, a cup and a spoon.