Mount Nanga Parbat, Pakistan

You can go there yourself
take a van (local transportation) from Gilgit to Astor
from astor there is ONE local jeep, mostly run everyday -once a day
off Tarishing village in the morning to Astor
then back in the afternoon
depends on the number and order of passengers!!!

The pix : A kid was going to school, showed me his 'notebook' :)

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The Himalayas are a great mountain range formed by the collision of Indo- Pakistan tectonic plate with the Asian Continent. The central Himalayan mountains are situated in Nepal, while the eastern mountains extend to the borders of Bhutan and Sikkim. Nanga Parbat massif is the western corner pillar of the Himalayas. It is an isolated range of peaks just springing up from nothing, and is surrounded by the rivers Indus and Astore. Nanga Parbat or "Nanga Parvata" means the naked mountain. Its original and appropriate name, however, is Diamir the king of mountains.
Nanga Parbat has a height of 8,126m/26,660 ft. It has three vast faces. The Rakhiot (Ra Kot) face is dominated by the north and south silver crags and silver plateau; the Diamir face is rocky in the beginning. It converts itself into ice fields around Nanga Parbat peak. The Rupal face is the highest precipice in the world. Reinhold Messner, a living legend in mountaineering from Italy, says that "every one who has ever stood at the foot of this face (4,500m/14,764ft) up above the 'Tap Alpe', studied it or flown over it, could not help the amazement of its sheer size; it has become known as the highest rock and ice wall in the world!". Nanga Parbat has always been associated with tragedies and tribulations until it was climbed in 1953. A lot of mountaineers have perished on Nanga Parbat since 1895. Even today it is claiming human lives, mountaineers in search of adventure and thrill are becoming its victims. It was in 1841 that a huge rock-slide from the Nanga Parbat dammed the Indus river. This created a huge lake, 55 km long, like the present Tarbela lake down-stream. The flood water that was released when the dam broke caused a rise of 80 ft in the river's 3 level at Attock and swept away an entire Sikh army. It was also in the middle of the nineteenth century that similar catastrophes were later caused by the damming of Hunza and Shyok rivers.
The Nanga Parbat peak was discovered in the nineteenth century by Europeans.

The Nanga Parbat,the sleeping beauti or the killer mountain.It has claimed life of more climbers than any any other mountain of the world.
But its magnetic field of beauty attracts tourists from all over the world.
Simply Magnificant...

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About 4-5 hours from Tareshing
(and good walking)

you'll reach Nanga Parbat Basecamp

I even got some nice sleep on the big rock
facing Nanga Parbat, even I closed my eyes :)

after get the big sweat, cross the first high peak
you'll see 'Rupal' village

There are 2 hotels in Tareshing village
I stayed at the upper

A guide can guide you to the basecamp

The pix : in front of GH, nearny the boy school
he was coming to class by his own vehicle :)