A 1,000-Year-Old Palace in Turtuk Offers a Timeless Sustainability Lesson for Ladakh’s Fragile Mountains
Turtuk is a village at the edge of India, in Ladakh’s Nubra Valley, where the Karakoram range casts long shadows over apricot orchards and stone-walled lanes. Until 1971, it was on the other side of the border. But borders mean little to the winds that have swept through this valley for a millennium. And sustainability…