GARTOK  , a

trade-market of Tibet, situated on the bank of the Indus on the road between Shigatse and Leh, to the east of Simla . In accordance with the Tibet treaty of 1904, Gartok, together with Yatung and Gyantse, was thrown open to British trade . On the return of the column from Lhasa in that year Gartok was visited by a party under Captain Ryder, who found only a few dozen people in winter quarters, their houses being in the midst of a bare plain . In summer, however, all the trade between Tibet and Ladakh passes through this place .