Trip Duration: 11 days
Season: June – August
Grade: Entry level trekking – optional climbing
Activities: Trekking & exploring the traditional valleys
Accommodation: 11 days trip, 04 days trek, 08 nights hotel, 03 nights camping
Tour from Gilgit Airport to get to the Trek start at Shimshal.
On your drive/tour from Gilgit to Karimabad, Hunza and onto Passu (along the KKH and a section of the ancient Silk Road) and then to Shimshal you will enjoy some of the most outstanding scenery in Northern Pakistan. The Gilgit river and terraces of farmland will be beside you as you drive north. You will stop and enjoy the views of the junction of the Western edge of the Himalayas with the Karakorum and the Hindu Kush mountain ranges. You will stop at the base of Rakaposhi (7,788m) and gaze up the Ghulmet Glacier at the highest unbroken slope on earth 5,838m above you. You will explore beautiful Karimabad with its delicious apricots (in the right season) and the famous Baltit Fort. The ancient roadside sacred rocks at Haldeikish and the drive north through picturesque villages and farmland and along the Khunjerab river; then to Passu with the amazing granite cathedral mountain tops surrounding you before you turn off the KKH up the narrow breath taking gorge road to Shimshal.
About this Trek and Tour – Optional Climbing
Yazghil Valley is one of the summer grazing pastures for the sheep, goats and yaks of Shimshal Valley. It is one of the most attractive mountain and valley areas of Northern Pakistan and provides easy and enjoyable trekking and climbing. Yazghil Pasture (3,500m) is located in Shimshal valley which is also called “The Valley of Mountaineers” because so many of the legendary mountaineers and high altitude porters of Pakistan are from this beautiful valley. Many of them have climbed one or more of Pakistan’s 8,000m peaks. . From Yazghil Pasture you will have superb views to the south of Kunyang Chish (7,852m) the 22nd highest mountain in the world and the other peaks of Hispar Range.
On this Trek you will be able to see, Yazghil Glacier, Khurdopin glacier, Virjerab Glacier, Yukshin Gardan Glacier and many beautiful mountain peaks, – Yukshin Gardan Sar-7,530m, Kanjut Sar-7,760m , Yazghil Dom, Kunyang Chish – 7,852m , Shimshal White Horn 6,400m and Yazghil Sar-5,964m
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