Karakoram Highway
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The Karakoram Highway, also known as the KKH, National Highway 35, N-35, and the China–Pakistan Friendship Highway, is a 1,300 km long national highway which extends from Hasan Abdal in the Punjab pro
Aerial View of the Karakoram Highway in 2021
View of Rakaposhi along Karakoram Highway in 2014
Jingle trucks on the Karakoram Highway in 2001
Milestone near Besham in Pakistan.
Nanga Parbat
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Nanga Parbat, known in Shina as Diamer, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth with its summit at 8,126 m above sea level. Lying immediately southeast of the northernmost bend of the Indus River in th
Karakoram Highway
…mountain ranges meet: the Hindukush, the Himalayas, and the Karakoram. The western end of the Himalayas, marked by the ninth highest peak in the world, Nanga Parbat, can be seen from the highway. The highway passes through the capital of Gilgit–Baltistan, Gilgit, and continues through the valleys of Nagar and Hunza…
Nanga Parbat viewed from Fairy Meadows
Nanga Parbat as viewed from Karakoram Highway
Nanga Parbat and the moraine below it, seen from Fairy Meadows
Aerial view of the northern face of Nanga Parbat as seen from above Fairy Meadows