TOP MOUNTAINS OF PAKISTAN
I never suggests that any map prepares you for northern Pakistan. You can trace the lines on a map, read the names — Karakoram, Himalayas, Hindu Kush — but it doesn't really sink in until you just sit with what that means. One corner of the planet holding three of the greatest mountain ranges in existence, all bunched together, all massive, all completely unbothered by anything happening below them. People always come here. Climbers chase records on these mountains. People who need break from this fast world come here and give slow pace to their lives. K2 This mountain is 8,611 meters high. It is second highest mountain on Earth. But numbers have a way of flattening things, and K2 resists being flattened. It is on the Pakistan-China border in the Karakoram, and it has a weight to it a reputation that climbers carry with them long before they ever see it in person. The nickname of this mountain is "Savage Mountain". The weather shifts fast and hard here. The routes...