OVERDRIVE Independence Quattro Drive 2016

The roads a thin sliver, there’s barely room for two cars to pass each other without putting a wheel onto the shoulder. But then there isn’t much of a shoulder here either. Sometimes you get soft mud, more often you get hard stones and even more often you get boulders. At least we are in a huge basin, inside the Nubra valley. We aren’t climbing another mountain pass, having to worry if that one side of ours is finding purchase on the shoulder or clawing air over the edge!

These are the Himalaya’s and it does not matter whether...