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.