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The detailed route description, tables, elevation profiles and maps give sufficient information to trek independently in the region. However, you may want to have an additional map. The Trekking Map of Ladakh by Sonam Tsetan (easily available in Leh) is quite basic in scale (about 1:650,000) but (as far as it has been checked by the author) is accurate regarding the location of roads, trails, villages, rivers and bridges. In particular, the trail is marked on the correct side of the stream for most places, and bridges are shown where they really exist.

The Ladakh & Zanskar Trekking Map, sheets North, Centre and South, by Editions Olizane, is the most detailed map of the region (1:150,000). It is accurate regarding landforms and features, but has some important mistakes regarding trail location. It is quite expensive; unless you plan to make side treks or variants that are not described in the book, you don’t need this map.

Maps by the US Army Map Service, produced in the 1950s and ’60s, are good in scale (1:250,000), freely available on the Internet and certainly worth consideration.