{"id":132242,"date":"2026-11-06T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=132242"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:04:43","slug":"namika-la-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/namika-la-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Namika La Pass: 2 Army Personnel Killed in 600-Foot Gorge Accident in Ladakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Namika La Pass Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Army personnel were killed after their vehicle plunged into a 600-foot-deep gorge at Namika La Pass on the Kargil-Leh national highway recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Namika La Pass<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>high mountain pass<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> located in the Union Territory of <\/span><b>Ladakh.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also known as the \u2018<\/span><b>Pillar of the Sky Pass\u2019<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it lies in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zanskar-range\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Zanskar Range<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the <\/span><b>Himalayas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It sits at a very high elevation, about <\/span><b>3,700 meters <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(or 12,139 feet) above sea level.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Located on the<\/span><b> Srinagar-Leh Highway (NH-1),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Namika La Pass is situated <\/span><b>on the way to the Mulbek Valley.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>one of the 2 high passes <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that <\/span><b>connect Kargil and Leh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>other being <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>higher Fotu La Pass.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the way to the Namika La Pass, there is the <\/span><b>famous Chambal statue of Maitreya Buddha as well as a Gompa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which attracts the tourists. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/two-soldiers-killed-as-army-vehicle-plunges-into-gorge-in-ladakh\/articleshow\/135544248.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>ET<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Army personnel died after their vehicle fell into a 600-foot gorge near Namika La Pass in Ladakh. The high-altitude pass connects Kargil and Leh along NH-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11388],"class_list":["post-132242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-namika-la-pass","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132300,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132242\/revisions\/132300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}