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Nanga Parbat Diamir Face from the flight to Skardu. Nanga Parbat Rupal Face from the Deosai Plains and the trek from Tarashing to Rupal Face base camp. Nanga Parbat Rakhiot Face from Fairy Meadows.

06 Nanga Parbat Diamir Face And Mazeno Ridge On Flight From Islamabad To Skardu On the 40-minute flight from Islamabad to Skardu, the captain announces, ‘We'll be flying at a planned altitude of 8,000 metres.’ Perfect I thought, we'll be exactly at the height of Nanga Parbat. The flight starts low key with the stewardesses serving drinks while we bide our time. When the pilot announces ‘Nanga Parbat is immediately ahead on the right’, all hell breaks loose. As one, all the tourists, including me, are up in the aisles, craning their necks, running for the cockpit. The sounds of cameras are everywhere. There it is, within arms reach. Nanga Parbat in perfect early morning splendor! We are passing by the Diamir Face, as I click photo after photo. The massive Mazeno Ridge runs down to the right of Nanga Parbat. The Mazeno ridge is the longest ridge on any 8000m mountain and includes eight 7000m peaks. Nobody has managed to traverse the ridge and continue to the summit of Nanga Parbat.

06 Nanga Parbat Diamir Face And Mazeno Ridge On Flight From Islamabad To Skardu

10 Nanga Parbat Rakhiot Face, Rakhiot Peak, Silver Saddle, East Peak, Silver Plateau, Summit, North Peaks On Flight From Islamabad To Skardu The flight from Islamabad to Skardu continues to fly around Nanga Parbat with Hermann Buhl’s route of first ascent becoming perfectly visible. Rakhiot Peak leads up to the Silver Saddle between the Nanga Parbat Southeast and East Peaks, and up to the summit with the North Peaks on the right.

10 Nanga Parbat Rakhiot Face, Rakhiot Peak, Silver Saddle, East Peak, Silver Plateau, Summit, North Peaks On Flight From Islamabad To Skardu

06 Nanga Parbat Rupal Face From The Deosai Plains We drove from Skardu to Tarashing over the Deosai Plains, a high alpine plateau scattered with small tufts of grass and small flowers. We came over a hill and there in front of was the enormous Rupal face of Nanga Parbat, standing alone on the horizon, shining brilliantly white in the sunshine. Starting on the left, the Mazeno Ridge leads to the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat, and then the summit ridge leads down past the North Peaks to the Southeast Peak and East Peaks and then plummets to Rakhiot Peak.

06 Nanga Parbat Rupal Face From The Deosai Plains

04 Nanga Parbat Rupal And East Faces, Rakhiot Peak, And Chongra Peaks From Tarashing At Sunset At sunset from Tarashing, Nanga Parbat Rupal and East Faces, Rakhiot Peak, and Chongra Peaks were backlit by the sun.

04 Nanga Parbat Rupal And East Faces, Rakhiot Peak, And Chongra Peaks From Tarashing At Sunset

07 Nanga Parbat Rupal And East Faces Close Up From Tarashing At Sunrise Nanga Parbat is a great sunrise mountain viewed from the east at Tarashing. Here is a close up of the Nanga Parbat Rupal and East Faces at sunrise.

07 Nanga Parbat Rupal And East Faces Close Up From Tarashing At Sunrise

09 Nanga Parbat Rupal And East Faces, Rakhiot Peak From Tarashing At Sunrise The yellow light of sunrise quickly changes to white on the Nanga Parbat Rupal and East Faces from Tarashing. Rakhiot Peak is on the right. Gunther Messner’s diary May 15, 1970: The day dawns bright and cloudless. For the first time I see Nanga and Chongra Peak from the south: the impression is overwhelming. Huge hanging glaciers, terrifying precipices, furrowed by avalanches. Right over to the left is the summit of Nanga! (The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner)

09 Nanga Parbat Rupal And East Faces, Rakhiot Peak From Tarashing At Sunrise

10 Rakhiot Peak East Face Close Up From Tarashing At Sunrise Rakhiot Peak South Face to the left in shadow and East Face shining in the early morning sun, seen from Tarashing. Rakhiot Peak (7070m) was first climbed on July 16, 1932 by Peter Aschenbrenner and Herbert Kunigk while attempting Nanga Parbat. Hermann Buhl climbed the summit needle of Rakhiot Peak on June 21, 1953 on the way to the first ascent of Nanga Parbat.

10 Rakhiot Peak East Face Close Up From Tarashing At Sunrise

13 Nanga Parbat Close Up On Trek From Tarashing To Rupal Face Base Camp The trek from Tarashing climbs over the Tarashing Glacier with a view of the Rupal Village ahead. After passing the lush fields of Rupal Village, an excellent view of Nanga Parbat comes into view, with the Rupal Face to the left, the summit, and the East Face to the right.

13 Nanga Parbat Close Up On Trek From Tarashing To Rupal Face Base Camp

19 Nanga Parbat Rupal Face And Rakhiot Peak From Bazhin Glacier Just Past Rupal Face Base Camp We walked a little farther from Herligkoffer Base Camp (3656m) onto the Bazhin Glacier with the Nanga Parbat Rupal Face and the ridge to Rakhiot Peak towering above. Gunther Messner letter home June 15, 1970: To the north, directly above us, is the Rupal Flank – 4500m to the summit. It is unbelievably impressive. (The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner)

19 Nanga Parbat Rupal Face And Rakhiot Peak From Bazhin Glacier Just Past Rupal Face Base Camp

17 Nanga Parbat Rupal Face Summit Area Close Up From Rupal Face Base Camp Nanga Parbat Rupal Face Summit Area Close Up From Herligkoffer Rupal Face Base Camp. ‘My first impression on emerging onto the ridge from the South Face was for me the most powerful moment of the entire Nanga Parbat Expedition. Everything seemed so unreal, so quiet. And there was Gunther, right next to me.’ (The Naked Mountain by Reinhold Messner).

17 Nanga Parbat Rupal Face Summit Area Close Up From Rupal Face Base Camp

03 Dangerous Jeep Road Towards Fairy Meadows On the 15km jeep ride from the Rakhiot Bridge to Tato, I can look over the edge of the road on the way to Fairy Meadows at the sheer drop of 1000m and think about, well, death. I especially feared if we would meet another jeep, but we didn't. I watch the local driver and hope he had a good night's sleep and is in a good mood. My life is clearly in his hands and feet. After a drive of one hour we arrived at the small village of Tato (2300m).

03 Dangerous Jeep Road Towards Fairy Meadows

09 Nanga Parbat East Summit, Silver Saddle, North Peaks From Fairy Meadows Nanga Parbat came out of the clouds for just a few minutes at Fairy Meadows and I quickly took some photos with South East Peak (7530m) and Silberzacken East Summit (7597m), the large Silver Plateau snowfield, North Peak II (7785m), North Peak I (7816m) on the right stretching back towards the true summit (8125m).

09 Nanga Parbat East Summit, Silver Saddle, North Peaks From Fairy Meadows

12 Looking Back Towards Fairy Meadows On Trek To Nanga Parbat Base Camp Fairy Meadows (3200m) is a spectacularly pine forested alpine meadow overlooking the Rakhiot Glacier. Its name comes from a local superstition that fairies inhabit the area. We walked from Fairy Meadows through the quiet pine covered valley and passed the Beyel camping site (3500m) after an hour. We follow the ridgeline ever upward, with Rakhiot Glacier flowing on our left side and the summit of Nanga Parbat in the clouds straight ahead. The Rakhiot Glacier stretches for about six km, sometimes with rock rubble on top and other times gleaming white.

12 Looking Back Towards Fairy Meadows On Trek To Nanga Parbat Base Camp

14 Cows Graze At Nanga Parbat Base Camp Nanga Parbat North Rakhiot Base Camp (3967m) is set in a beautiful meadow filled with Himalayan flowers and cows quietly grazing.

14 Cows Graze At Nanga Parbat Base Camp

05 Babusar Pass Looking Back The Road Towards Chilas We have a couple of short delays with a broken down tractor, a road plow, and a donkey. We make good time and reach Babusar Pass (4173m) in two and a half hours from Chilas.

05 Babusar Pass Looking Back The Road Towards Chilas

08 Wildflowers Frame The Road With Lake Lulusar In Kaghan Valley We descend from the Babusar Pass to see beautiful wildflowers blooming on the side of the road with the dark green waters of Lake Lulusar (3350m) in the distance.

08 Wildflowers Frame The Road With Lake Lulusar In Kaghan Valley

13 Lake Saiful Maluk With Malika Parbat In Kaghan Valley Ilys drove 9km from Naran in half an hour up 770m to Lake Saiful Maluk (3200m). The overcast skies slowly parted to reveal this beautiful lake, set in alpine surroundings. The water reflects the surrounding peak of Malika Parbat (5290m). Lake Saiful Maluk (3200m) is the most popular lake in Pakistan ... for middle-class Pakistanis that is. They arrived in jeeps, small buses, and on foot, swarming the lake, and vastly outnumbering the one and only foreigner.

13 Lake Saiful Maluk With Malika Parbat In Kaghan Valley

18 Beautiful Sri Lake At Sri Paya Meadow Above Shogran Kaghan Valley We leave the main road after Kaghan and climb 8km through tall pine trees to Shogran (2362m), a major Pakistani tourist destination set among tall pine trees, green meadows, cornfields and cow pastures. We drive up an extremely rough jeep track to Sri Paya, just a plain grassy meadow. Just down from the Sri Paya meadow there is a small meadow with a beautiful green Sri Lake.

18 Beautiful Sri Lake At Sri Paya Meadow Above Shogran Kaghan Valley


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