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Pakistan’s far north holds some of the world’s highest peaks and has a proud cultural identity, but until now international ...
For six weeks we followed Colin Prior as he began a four year project to document the Karakoram mountains. The hardships we faced – both getting to the mountains and on a trek that is described ...
If you’re keen to visit the iconic Karakoram mountain range, now might be the time, as Pakistan officials have delayed a move ...
The Karakoram Highway is one of the highest paved roads in the world, often called the 'Eighth Wonder of the World' due to ...
High up in the Karakoram mountains, more than 16,000 feet above sea level, lies the Siachen Glacier -- one of the harshest ...
At the foot of Pakistan's impossibly high mountains whitened by frost all year round, farmers grappling with a lack of water ...
Pakistan’s fastest train is pretty impressive with few of its specifications but still, it lags behind India’s many fastest ...
The train is named after the famous Karakoram mountain range in northern Pakistan ... In comparison, India’s Vande Bharat train, a medium-distance superfast express service, has maximum ...
Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...
The Karakoram range in Baltistan — even at 20,000ft, Laila Peak does not fall into the range’s 100 tallest summits. Photograph by Naveed Hussain, Alamy ...