Visit Skardu

The Hunza valley capital under Rakaposhi, the Baltit fort and apricot orchards on the Karakoram Highway.

A Tibetan Buddhist town at 3,500 metres in Ladakh, monasteries on rocks and the road to Pangong lake.

The Savage Mountain: 8,611 m, harder and deadlier than Everest, with no easy route to the top.

The Killer Mountain: 8,126 m, with the Rupal Face, the biggest mountain wall on Earth.

Hidden Peak, 8,080 m, buried so deep in the Karakoram it cannot be seen from any inhabited place.

Twelve kilometres from K2 at 8,051 m, with a long summit ridge that has cost several lives.

At 8,035 m the most approachable of the Karakoram giants, first climbed in 1956.

Two-week trek up the Baltoro Glacier to the foot of the world’s second-highest peak.