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Triple K “expedition” (#17 in teaser series: Skardu “International” Airport)

 

For most of its visitors, Skardu is the “gateway” to the Karakoram – the world’s second-highest mountain range.

Arguably, the Karakoram is even more spectacular than the Himalaya; having experienced both, I reckon the Karakoram takes the metaphorical “biscuit”, handsomely.

All fourteen of the world’s  “recognised” 8,000 metres+ peaks are in either the Himalaya or Karakoram; my beloved and I have seen at least six of them.

Most of the Karakoram is in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region.

At 2,230 metres ASL, Skardu’s airport sits just slightly above the bottom of a deep valley.

The pictured tarmac is two metres higher above sea level than is the Australian continent’s highest peak.

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Triple K “expedition” (#1 in teaser series: a relatively modest mountain)

 

 

 

Spantik (aka “Golden Mountain”) soars 7027 metres above sea level.

It is rather more than three times higher than the Australian continent’s highest peak.

In the Karakoram, however, many mountains are mightier than Spantik.

Pakistan has 108 peaks that exceed 7000 metres!

We are just-returned from an unforgettable trip which began in Delhi and concluded in Beijing.

Primarily, however, it was focused on Kashmir, the Karakoram and Kashgar.

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