Trekking Trips

At the Western End of the great Asian high-mountains system, the Karakorum, Hindukush and Himalaya ranges all coverage in a landscape of truly breathtaking scale. Mountains typically rise above 6000m, with more than 160 summits higher than 7000m. In the Karakorum alone, 30 peaks reach higher than 7500m.

Here is world greatest concentration of high peaks and glaciers, with a beauty, isolation and sheer immensity like nothing else on the planet. This wilderness of ice and rock has drawn mountaineers and trekkers since its discovery by European explores in the mid-19th century.

The star attraction is the Baltoro Glacier, with its huge rock towers, giant peaks and the real mountain heavyweight, K2. This is heaven for mountain lovers; a place you dream of going. Yet there are other places equally sublime, and whether you trek in the high Hindukush or the mighty Karakorum ice mountains, you experience a wilderness of heart aching beauty that encompasses the extremes of climate and terrain.

Mammoth highway of ice – the Biafo Hispar, Chogo Lungma, Trich and Batura glaciers – offer the longest glacier traverses outside the sub polar zones. Nanga Parbat, an 8000m colossus, has three of the most easily reached base camps of any major peak in the world.

Whenever you venture off the well-traveled trekking routs, you embark on a journey through areas visited by only handfuls of trekkers each year. There are valleys and glaciers virtually unknown, awaiting the adventurous. Beyond Shimshal village lays an area of thousands square kilometers, almost completely unexplored. West of the Karumber River are mountains and valleys that don’t even appear on maps.

Even on the well-trodden routes, you can walk for days and never meet another trekker. Northern Pakistan is not the victim of tourist floods and remains an undiscovered gem. You can find plenty of day hikes and short treks where no glacier travel is involved, all of them uncrowned and inviting.