Walk up the bottom of the small gully on the left until it divides in three directions, taking the left fork which winds steeply up to the prinkiti la.
The pretty wanla village with its 11th century gompa high up on a crag, make a pleasant place to stop.
The trail to Alchi turns NE up the Ripchar valley, after the main group of houses the track climbs by a series of hairpin bends and traverses, a high steep, unstable slope for 3km.
The going can be difficult over the jumble of boulders on the floor of the gorge, before the valley widens on its way up the mountain side.
The views from the top are as good as you do expect, stretching south to the Zanskar Range and east along the Indus Valley. The descent to Tar is a long and arduous one through a seemingly endless deep valley.