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Muzaffarabad is situated at the conflux of the Neelum and Jehlum rivers. The city is 138 kilometers by Rawalpindi and Islamabad and about 76 kilometers from Abbottabad.
The name "Muzaffararbad" comes from the name of Sultan Muzaffar Khan, a former ruler of the Bomba Dynasty. Muzaffarabad has always been one of the important cities of Kashmir. After the 1948-49 war, Muzaffarabad was made the capital of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
Murree is a hill station and one of the largest resort towns in the Galiyat area of Pakistan. It is situated on the southern slopes of the Western Himalayan foothills as they ascend to the northeast towards Kashmir.Its actual altitude has now been determined as 2,300 m (7,500 ft) above sea level.
Murree belongs to a sub-tropical continental highlands climatic type, situated in the outer Himalayas. This type of area has cold, snowy winters, relatively cool summer and frequent fog. Precipitation is received year round, with two maximas, first one during winter and second one at summer, July-August. Total mean precipitation annually is 1,789 mm (70.4 in).
Mitre Peak is dedicated to Tariq Sulemani, Mountain Lover,a passionate traveler, a cute handsome man,always struggling to do some new. My all best wishes are with him.
I wish his travel to Baltoro glacier safe and sound.Amin.
KACHURA, one of the beatiful valley in district Skardu of Baltistan has two beautiful Lakes name Upper Kachura Lake and Lower Kachura Lake situated at the height of 2,500-M. A popular tourist destination for the local as well as foreign tourists.
SKARDU is the capital city of Baltistan the most popular destinations in Pakistan for the local as well as foreign tourists due to variety of mountains, lakes, forts, deserts, streams and plateaus which are extremely beautiful.
Skardu located in the 10 km wide by 40km long Valley at an altitude of nearly 2,500 at the confluence of the Indus river,the longest river of Pakistan It flows from Tibet northwest across the Indian-controlled portion of Jammu and Kashmir, passing between the western extremity of the Himalayas and the northern extremity of the Hindu Kush mountain range; it then courses generally south through Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.
The town is surrounded by grey-brown coloured mountains, which hide the 8,000 metre peaks of the nearby Karakoram range.
Perhaps the most amazing collection of high peaks in the world, K2 and the Gasherbrum massif in the Karakoram, with most in Pakistan and the northern side of the nearer peaks, including K2, in China.
The picture was taken from the NNW, looking towards the SSE along a bearing of roughly 155 degrees E of N. The plane was over China at this point and K2 is approximately 140km away.
K2, Broad Peak, and Gasherbrum I–IV lie in a line running towards the SE, and a few other peaks in the Karakoram appear in the foreground and background. From left to right, the peaks are:
Gasherbrum I (8068m at ~165km distance);
Saltoro Kangri (7742m, in the background at ~200km);
Gasherbrum II (8035m, ~160km);
Skyang Kangri (7545m, between Gasherbrum II and III and in the foreground at ~140km);
Gasherbrum III (7952m, ~158km);
Gasherbrum IV (7925m, ~157km);
Broad Peak (8047m, ~150km);
K2 (8612m, ~140km);
Chogolisa (7665m, again the background at ~170km).
As seen from Qatar Airways flight 896 en-route between Doha and Beijing. Unfortunately, at these distances, slight imperfections in the plane's windows lead to some blurring in some parts of the picture.
Tupopdan peaks & Hunza River, near Passu village, upper Hunza, Gilgit Baltistan of Pakistan.
Tupopdan - "mouthful of sun mountain " in local language, also know as Passu Cones, or Cathedral Peak.
In 1987, Tupopdan Sar was climb by British P.Cox, L.Griffin et M.Woolridge
Blossom in Upper Hunza behind you can see Tupopdan Peak (6106- M) , also known as Passu Cathedral.
In March and April the view of of Baltistan and Hunza valley is incredible, though it remain spectacular throughout the year. The best time of year to visit Hunza and Baltistan is April to October. From spring to autumn the valley is more attractive , all three fabulous seasons have their own unique charm, which cannot be described in words but can only be felt. In the Spring season the field and orchards come alive with blossom of different natural colours in the villages.
Bahrain, Swat Pakistan
Swat is a one of the beautiful valley in Pakistan located 170 kilometer from Islamabad.
Saidu Sharif,is the captial of Swat,but the main town in the Swat valley is Mingora.
Various religions have flourished here including the cradle of many Buddhist part of Gandhara. The imprints of their culture can be easily seen in archaeological sites.Buddhism, spread to other parts of Asia from here. This great progress became possible due to personal dedication of King Ashoka to Buddhism. During his reign, Buddhism spread to Japan, Tibet, China and Bhutan.
Swat was a princely state in the North West Frontier Province until it was dissolved in 1969. It's natural beauty of high mountains, green meadows and clear lakes has earned Swat a reputation as "the Switzerland of Pakistan.
Malubiting (also known as Malubiting West) is the second highest peak in the Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains, a subrange of the Karakoram range of Pakistan.
Malubiting was unsuccessfully attempted in 1955, 1959, 1968, 1969 and 1970 and 1971 before the first ascent in 1971. In that year an Austrian team led by Horst Schindlbacher reached the summit via the Northeast Ridge, ascending the North Peak and skirting the Central Peak on the way.
Baltit Fort was the old palace of the Mirs of Hunza .
It is an ancient fort was built 750 years ago,It is situated in Karimabad, Hunza Northern Area of Pakistan.
The story goes that a Princess from Baltistan married the local prince and she brought in Balti masons, carpenters and craftsmen to build it and it. According to local legends, 300 laborers for the construction of the Fort were also part of the royal dowry of the Princess from Baltistan.
Stone, mud and timber only were used for the construction of the Fort, because these materials were locally available, cheap, earthquake resistant, sustainable, long lasting and adequate for thermal comfort.
The window frames doors and columns are elaborately carved, Timber is used for all the openings. The carving style originate from Kashmiri and Ladakh style.
Baltit Fort can be seen from all sides of the Hunza Valley as it is centrally located on the top of a small hill.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram
The Karakoram, or Karakorum is a large mountain range spanning the borders of Pakistan, India, and China, with the northwest extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It is located in the regions of Gilgit–Baltistan (Pakistan), Ladakh (India), and southern Xinjiang (China), and reaches the Wakhan Corridor (Afghanistan). A part of the complex of ranges from the Hindu Kush to the Himalayan Range,[1][2] it is one of the Greater Ranges of Asia. The Karakoram is home to the four most closely located peaks over 8000m in height on earth:[3][4] K2, the second highest peak in the world at 8,611 m (28,251 ft), Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum II.
The range is about 500 km (311 mi) in length, and is the most heavily glaciated part of the world outside the polar regions. The Siachen Glacier at 76 kilometres (47 mi) and the Biafo Glacier at 63 kilometres (39 mi) rank as the world's second and third longest glaciers outside the polar regions.[5]
The Karakoram is bounded on the northeast by the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, and on the north by the Pamir Mountains. The southern boundary of the Karakoram is formed, west to east, by the Gilgit, Indus, and Shyok Rivers, which separate the range from the northwestern end of the Himalaya range proper as these rivers converge southwestward towards the plains of Pakistan.
The Tashkurghan National Nature Reserve and the Pamir Wetlands National Nature Reserve in the Karalorun and Pamir mountains have been nominated for inclusion in UNESCO in 2010 by the National Commission of the People's Republic of China for UNESCO and has tentatively been added to the list.
Name
Karakoram is a Turkic term meaning black gravel. The name was first applied by local traders to the Karakoram Pass.[7] Early European travellers, including William Moorcroft and George Hayward, started using the term for the range of mountains west of the pass, although they also used the term Muztagh (meaning, "Ice Mountain") for the range now known as Karakoram.[7][8] Later terminology was influenced by the Survey of India, whose surveyor Thomas Montgomerie in the 1850s gave the labels K1 to K6 (K for Karakoram) to six high mountains visible from his station at Mount Haramukh in Kashmir.
Exploration
Due to its altitude and ruggedness, the Karakoram is much less inhabited than parts of the Himalayas further east. European explorers first visited early in the 19th century, followed by British surveyors starting in 1856.
The Muztagh Pass was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband[9] and the valleys above the Hunza River were explored by General Sir George K. Cockerill in 1892. Explorations in the 1910s and 1920s established most of the geography of the region.
The name Karakoram was used in the early 20th century, for example by Kenneth Mason,[7] for the range now known as the Baltoro Muztagh. The term is now used to refer to the entire range from the Batura Muztagh above Hunza in the west to the Saser Muztagh in the bend of the Shyok River in the east.
Floral surveys were carried out in the Shyok River catchment and from Panamik to Turtuk village by Chandra Prakash Kala during 1999 and 2000.[10][11]
Geology and glaciers
The Karakoram is in one of the world's most geologically active areas, at the plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate.[12] A significant part, 28-50% of the Karakoram Range is glaciated, compared to the Himalaya (8-12%) and Alps (2.2%).[13] Mountain glaciers may serve as an indicator of climate change, advancing and receding with long-term changes in temperature and precipitation. Karakoram glaciers are mostly stagnating or enlarging,[14][15] because, unlike in the Himalayas, many Karakoram glaciers are covered in a layer of rubble which insulates the ice from the warmth of the sun. Where there is no such insulation, the rate of retreat is high.[16]
The Karakoram during the Ice Age
In the last ice age, a connected series of glaciers stretched from western Tibet to Nanga Parbat, and from the Tarim basin to the Gilgit District.[17][18][19] To the south, the Indus glacier was the main valley glacier, which flowed 120 kilometres (75 mi) down from Nanga Parbat massif to 870 metres (2,850 ft) elevation.[17][20] In the north, the Karakoram glaciers joined those from the Kunlun Mountains and flowed down to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) in the Tarim basin.[19][21]
While the current valley glaciers in the Karakoram reach a maximum length of 76 kilometres (47 mi), several of the ice-age valley glacier branches and main valley glaciers, had lengths up to 700 kilometres (430 mi). During the Ice age, the glacier snowline was about 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) lower than today.[19][20]
Highest peaks
K2: 8,611 metres (28,251 ft)
Gasherbrum I: 8,080 metres (26,510 ft)
Broad Peak: 8,051 metres (26,414 ft)
Gasherbrum II: 8,035 metres (26,362 ft)
Gasherbrum III: 7,952 metres (26,089 ft)
Gasherbrum IV: 7,925 metres (26,001 ft)
Distaghil Sar: 7,885 metres (25,869 ft)
Kunyang Chhish: 7,852 metres (25,761 ft)
Masherbrum I: 7,821 metres (25,659 ft)
Batura I: 7,795 metres (25,574 ft)
Rakaposhi: 7,788 metres (25,551 ft)
Batura II: 7,762 metres (25,466 ft)
Kanjut Sar: 7,760 metres (25,460 ft)
Saltoro Kangri: 7,742 metres (25,400 ft)
Batura III: 7,729 metres (25,358 ft)
Saser Kangri: 7,672 metres (25,171 ft)
Chogolisa: 7,665 metres (25,148 ft)
Passu Sar: 7,478 metres (24,534 ft)
Malubiting: 7,458 metres (24,469 ft)
Sia Kangri: 7,442 metres (24,416 ft)
K12: 7,428 metres (24,370 ft)
Skil Brum: 7,410 metres (24,310 ft)
Haramosh Peak: 7,397 metres (24,268 ft)
Ultar Peak: 7,388 metres (24,239 ft)
Momhil Sar: 7,343 metres (24,091 ft)
Baintha Brakk: 7,285 metres (23,901 ft)
Baltistan Peak: 7,282 metres (23,891 ft)
Muztagh Tower: 7,273 metres (23,862 ft)
Diran: 7,266 metres (23,839 ft)
Gasherbrum V: 7,147 metres (23,448 ft)
The majority of the highest peaks are in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan. Baltistan has more than 100 mountain peaks exceeding 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) height from sea level.
K-names
K1: Masherbrum
K2
K3: Gasherbrum IV
K3a: Gasherbrum III
K4: Gasherbrum II
K5: Gasherbrum I
K6: Baltistan Peak
K7: 6,934 m peak near Charakusa Valley
K9: approx. 7,000 m peak near Trango Towers
K10: Saltoro Kangri I
K11: Saltoro Kangri II
K12: subsidiary peak of Saltoro Kangri
K22: Saser Kangri I
Subranges
The naming and division of the various subranges of the Karakoram is not universally agreed upon. However, the following is a list of the most important subranges, following Jerzy Wala.[22] The ranges are listed roughly west to east.
Batura Muztagh
Rakaposhi-Haramosh Mountains
Spantik-Sosbun Mountains
Hispar Muztagh
South Ghujerab Mountains
Panmah Muztagh
Wesm Mountains
Masherbrum Mountains
Baltoro Muztagh
Saltoro Mountains
Siachen Muztagh
Rimo Muztagh
Saser Muztagh
Passes
From west to east
Kilik Pass
Mintaka Pass
Khunjerab Pass (the highest paved international border crossing at 4,693 m (15,397 ft))
Shimshal Pass
Mustagh Pass
Karakoram Pass
Sasser Pass
The Khunjerab Pass is the only motorable pass across the range. The Shimshal Pass (which does not cross an international border) is the only other pass still in regular use.
Cultural references
The Karakoram mountain range has been referred to in a number of novels and movies. Rudyard Kipling refers to the Karakorum mountain range in his novel Kim, which was first published in 1900. Marcel Ichac made a film titled Karakoram, chronicling a French expedition to the range in 1936. The film won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival of 1937. Greg Mortenson details the Karakoram, and specifically K2 and the Balti, extensively in his book Three Cups of Tea, about his quest to build schools for children in the region. In the Gatchaman TV series, the Karakoram range houses Galactor's headquarters. K2 Kahani (The K2 Story) by Mustansar Hussain Tarar describes his experiences at K2 base camp.
Ghizer District situated in north of Gilgit.
It joins with Wakhan strip on its north-west, and China on its north most borders.
On its west, there is Chitral District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Its capital is Gakuch. It is multi ethnic district and four major languages are spoken. Shina, Khowar, Burushaski and Wakhi. In Ghizer is a famous and beautiful lake is called Phunder lake which is famous for Trout.
Ghizer is connected to Chitral via Shandur pass( highest Polo ground in the world) and Gilgit which is well connected by air with Islamabad( weather dependent) and by road with Islamabad/Rawalpindi, Skardu. You can take a flight to Gilgit from the capital of the country and reach Ghizer.
Baltit Fort was the old palace of the Mirs of Hunza .
It is an ancient fort was built 750 years ago,It is situated in Karimabad, Hunza Northern Area of Pakistan.
The story goes that a Princess from Baltistan married the local prince and she brought in Balti masons, carpenters and craftsmen to build it and it. According to local legends, 300 laborers for the construction of the Fort were also part of the royal dowry of the Princess from Baltistan.
Stone, mud and timber only were used for the construction of the Fort, because these materials were locally available, cheap, earthquake resistant, sustainable, long lasting and adequate for thermal comfort.
The window frames doors and columns are elaborately carved, Timber is used for all the openings. The carving style originate from Kashmiri and Ladakh style.
Baltit Fort can be seen from all sides of the Hunza Valley as it is centrally located on the top of a small hill.