Tag: Karakoram mountain

Attabad (Urdu: عطا آباد‎), also spelt Atabad, is a town in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. It is located at 36°19’0N 74°48’0E with an altitude of 2559 metres (8398 feet), and is famous as home of the Attabad Lake. Read more...

Trivor  is one of the high peaks of the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range in the Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan. Its height is often given as 7,728 metres, but this elevation is not consistent with photographic evidence. The height given here is from a Russian 1:100,000 topographic map. There have been only two successful climbs of this peak; Read more...

Shispare  is one of the high peaks of the Batura Muztagh, which is the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range. Alternate forms of the name of this peak are Shispare Sar and Shisparé Sar. Shispare lies east of the Batura Wall, which is the highest part of the Batura Muztagh. The Hunza River curves around the southwest, west, and northwest Read more...

  Mingli Sar  is a mountain located in the Shimshal valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The mountain, located in the Karakoram mountain range, is 6050 meters high and located at the southernmost part of the Pamir mountain range. It was first climbed in 1988 by the famous Pakistani climber Nazir Sabir. Shimshal lake sits at the base of the mountain. China is located to the north, while to the left is the Hindukush mountain range. K2 is located Read more...