You are looking at the Passu Cones, aka “Passu Cathedral”, or Tupopdan.
These “cones” reach 6,106 metres ASL – a relatively modest altitude, by Karakoram peaks’ standards.
Nonetheless, the Passu Cones are among the more amazing mountains, anywhere.
I took the photo at 8.09 am on 23 May 2024; we had left the Hunza Valley one hour earlier, and were heading along the Karakoram Highway, bound for China.
At that moment the Pakistan/China border was less than 70 kilometres away, but a long way up; the border crossing sits atop the Khunjerab Pass.
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