Thursday, May 24, 2007

Exploring Fairy Meadows

Date: April 30th, 2007
Location: Fairy Meadows
This album covers the pictures took very next day morning after reaching Fairy Meadows, It shows you one of the beautiful sights of world located at the hight of 3,036 m or 10, 843 ft. It shows you the Nanga Parbat, the world's 9th highest mountain with 8,125 m. It also shows you some of the surrounding mountains like Buldar Peak, North Jilipar Peak, Patro Glacier and Raikot Glacier. On the way to Fairy Meadows from Raikot Bridge, you will see Tato River and Tato Village at the height of 3,214 m. There is track to Nanga Parbat Base Camp (height 3,967 m) from Fairy Meadows. Pakistan is home of 5 peaks above 8, 000 m and four of which are visible from Concordia. Only Nanga Parbat Peak above 8000 m is in Karakoram Mountain Range. Some of the world's largest glaciers outside the polar region are also in Pakistan, like Baltoro Glacier, Biafo Glacier and Hispar Glacier (all are more than 50-60km long!!!). This album only covers the one side of Fairy Meadows and shows you cottages owned by Farman Ali with the name of Fairy Meadows Cottages & Camping Resort (www.fairymeadowscottage.com). You can view other side of Fairy Meadows in “Fairy Meadows to Raikot Bridge” album.


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