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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…

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