A high-altitude alpine lakes trek from Kolan village near Kangan to the twin lakes of Khemsar and Yemsar in the Sindh valley catchment
No reason has been recorded. Closures here are usually snow, a damaged crossing, or an order restricting access — check locally before you travel.
Closed · 4–5 days
Next in season from September.
No surveyed route yet.
This trek has not been digitised, so there is no map, no elevation profile and no checkpoint list for it. Everything else on this page is editor-checked information about the walk itself.
About 22 km from Srinagar as the crow flies — the road is longer.
Directions to the trailheadGEAR
The Kashmir Explorer app keeps the same checklist on your account and inside the offline Trek Pack.
The Khemsar-Yemsar trek climbs from Kolan village near Kangan, in the Sindh valley, through forest and pasture to two remote alpine lakes at around 3,750 metres. The approach is steep in stretches and the lakes are less visited than Kashmir's better-known trekking lakes, making this a quieter option for experienced trekkers. Most parties camp at least one night near the ridge below the lakes before returning the same way.
No trekker reports yet.
Conditions on this route change week to week. If you walk it, a short report on pass snow and river levels genuinely helps the next group — reports are posted from the Kashmir Explorer app.
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Prepare this trek on your phone before you leave signal. The trek, the route and the numbers are identical to this page — one catalogue, one Official Route.