Around Nanga Parbat Trek Trip Highlights • Offers easy access to an 8000m peak base camp • View of world’s Ninth Highest Mountain from its all Base camps • Unique Trekking holiday in Pakistan’s Himalayan Mountain • One of the Pakistan`s top 5 trekking adventures • Experience All three faces of Nanga Parbat, Rupal, Raikot and Diamir 1 NIGHT HOTELS , 21 NIGHT CAMPING, PRICE US$1800/PAX FOR 8-12 PEOPLE GROUP 21 DAYS STTRENOUS TREKKING PRICE US$1900/PAX FOR 4-7 PEOPLE GROUP MAX. ALTITUDE – 5400M PRICE US$2000/PAX FOR 3 PEOPLE GROUP INTRODUCTION Nanga Parbat (8125m), the world's ninth- highest peak and the second-highest of Pakistan's five 8000m peaks, is the westernmost peak of the Great Himalayan range. With a 20km long series of peaks and ridges, Nanga Parbat forms a huge massif. Its solitary white appearance, visible from the south for at least 100km, prompted its name, which means `naked mountain' in Urdu. It's also known as the 'Killer Moun- tain' because of the difficulties mountaineers have in reaching its summit. Beside the glaciers there are pine and fir forests, sparkling streams and open grasslands that have enchanted visitors and prompted the name Fairy Meadow. The view of Nanga Parbat from the Indus River is one of the most awesome sights in the world. This largest land escarpment in the world consists of a rise of about 7000 m. from the base of the mountain to its summit. On the other side of Nanga we have the famous Rupal Face; the tallest wall in the world with a sheer 4500m cliff. It has three main faces known as Rupal, Diamer and Raikot, which are totally different in appearance and shape and their routes start from different valleys. Rupal Face journey starts from Gilgit or Karakoram Highway (KKH) to Tarashing, a green alpine village at the head of the jeep track. It takes another two days to arrive at Rupal base camp. Diamer base camp the track is the most lengthy as it needs three days to reach. Raikot, where we go up to Raikot Bridge on KKH to switch over to local jeeps for Jhel, a small place in Tato Valley at the foot of Fairy Meadows. This program includes a visit to all three faces crossing high passes en route making it Around Nanga Parbat Trek. Around Nanga Parbat trek runs through the enchanting lands of Western finger of great Himalayas replete with alpine meadows, lofty pinnacles, dense forests and strangely fantastic forms of landscape that qualify it as a best trekking route in Pakistan. This Three weeks adventure makes a circuit of the 8125m Nanga Parbat. This only Himalayan peak in Pakistan offers the grandest spectacle from distance but we will have breathtaking close-ups of its ‘hundred faces’ during this tour. Starting with an easy to moderate walking of two to four hours daily along the lateral moraines and flat green pastures, we will cross the Mazeno Pass, which is the strenuous and sensational climax of this adventure as it is a technical endeavor where ropes are fixed on steep pitches we end up in Rama. TREK OVERVIEW BEST TIME: MID-JULY to SEPTEMBER Day Date Activity Mode Time Height Accommodation 01 Gilgit to Tarishing Drive 5-7 hours 2900m Camp 02 Tarashing – Behzin (Herrligkoffer B.C) Trek 4-5 hours 3550m Camp 03 Behzin – Shaigiri Trek 5-6 hours 3600m Camp 04 Shaigiri Day Free Rupal Face Free - 3600m Camp 05 Shaigiri–Mazeno Pass Base Camp Trek 3.5 hours 4050m Camp 06 Mazeno Pass Base Camp–High Camp Trek 4-6 hours 4700m Camp 07 High Camp – Loiba ( Upper &Lower) Trek 9-12hours 4000m Camp 08 Loiba – Kachal via Kachal Pass Trek 6 hours 3000m Camp 09 Kachal-Nanga Parbat B.C (Diamir Face) Trek 6-8 hours 4300m Camp 10 Nanga Parbat Base camp Diamir Face Free - 4300m Camp 11 Nanga Parbat Base camp-Kachal Trek 6-8 hours 3000m Camp 12 Kachal-Karu Sagar Trek 10hours 2600m Camp 13 Karu Sagar(Shaichi)– Gutum Sagar Trek 6 hours 3500m Camp 14 Gutum Sagar- Jilipur High Camp Trek 4-6 hours 4400m Camp 15 Jilipur High Camp - Beyal Camp Trek 5-6 hour 3500m Camp 16 Beyal Camp - Day Free Free - 3500m Camp 17 Beyal - Nanga Parbat B.C Raikot Face Trek 2-4 hours 3306m Camp 18 Fairy Meadows - Muthat Trek 8 hours 3000m Camp 19 Muthat - Glacier Camp (Chorgali) Trek 6 hours 3200m Camp 20 Muthat HC - Rama Ridge Camp Trek 8 hours 3500m Camp 21 Rama Ridge Camp - Rama Lake Trek 4-5 hours 3300m Camp 22 Rama Lake – Chilas Drive 6 hours 1265m Hotel DETAILED ITINERARY DAY 1: DRIVE TO TARISHING/TARASHING FROM GILGIT We drive on Karakoram Highway towards Juglot. On the way we can stop at junction of three mountain ranges (Karakoram, Himalaya and Hidukush) for photography where River Gilgit and Indus also meet. The road from Juglot near the mouth of the valley starts off impressively but is soon squeezed onto the crumbling sides of the barren, slide-prone gorge. It’s an oven in summer, but grows lovelier as you climb. There’s a foreigner registration point 13km in at Doian, not long after which the road traverses a dangerous slipping area. KEY DESTINATION DETAILS: Astor At 2450m Astor village is perched like an eagle’s nest on both sides of Rama Gah (ravine). The bazaar is up a steep track on the north side of the ravine, and the valley road continues on the south side. Tarashing is about 40km from Astor and 2900m high, beneath Nanga Parbat’s naked Rupal face (though it’s not in full view). The village sits in a spectacular piece of real estate amid massive glaciers flowing from the mountain massif. From here one can day-hike up the moraine (glacial rubble) for a good look at the Rupal face, the Tarashing Glacier, across the glacier and on up Rupal Gah, or across Rupal Gah to Zaipur village, at the top of which are water channels on huge wooden towers said to be 400 to 500 years old. ACCOMODATION ELEVATION MEALS : D DISTANCE 160 TEMPERATURE CAMP TIME 8 KM 20°C 2900 M DRIVING HOURS DAY 2: TARASHING TO BAZHIN The trail climbs steeply from Tarashing (2,900m) up the lateral moraine of the Tarashing Glacier, and then crosses the glacier in 30 minutes along a clear path. First half hour of the trek is steep up to the lateral moraine of Trashing Glacier then it will take another half hour to cross the glacier. At the other side of the glacier is lower Rupal Valley with two large summer settlements and big fields of wheat. From lower Rupal Valley trek is green and gradually ascending. After about three hours walk from here and arrive Behzin just under the solid ice wall of east face of Nanga Parbat. KEY DESTINATION DETAILS: Rupal is a large settlement with a lower and an upper village, each surrounded by fields of wheat, barley, beans, peas and potatoes. The people of Lower Rupal originated from Baltistan and still speak a form of Balti mixed with Shina. The women wear Balti headdresses—decorated with silver beads and buttons and a brown felt tail hanging down the back—reminiscent of headdresses in Ladakh. Upper Rupal has two compact villages, the houses so close together that a laden donkey cannot pass between them. Here the people are Gujars, and the women wear round pill-box hats covered with veils. The two settlements of Upper Rupal are completely closed up in summer, when the inhabitants all move further up the valley with the herds to summer pastures. The houses are half underground, with round, excavated food stores nearby. In winter the snow is more than a meter deep, so everyone stays indoors for three months. From Rupal, the path climbs steadily up a narrow green valley, through groves of willow, poplar and juniper. The mountainside is covered in forget-me-nots, lavender and edelweiss. After about two hours you pass a small lake and round a comer to Bazhin Camp (about 3,650), a flat, green meadow between the lateral moraine of the Bazhin Glacier and the mountain. Ahead towers the solid ice wall of the east face of Nanga Parbat.This is a perfect campsite with clear spring water, a wood full of birds this spot is called HERRLIGKOFFER Base Camp (3550m), a beautiful, although much used meadows along the BAZHIN Glacier’s east margin. The camp site is named after Dr. Karl M HERRLIGKOFFER the leader of eight German expeditions to NANGA PARBAT, including the first successful expedition in 1953. Rupal Glacier or Tashain Glacier is a glacier in the Great Himalaya subrange of Himalayas. It starts north of an unnamed 6,326-metre-high (20,755 ft) peak and flows northeastward, north of Laila Peak (Rupal Valley) and south of Nanga Parbat's many peaks. The melt water from the glacier forms Rupal River. ASCENT 639M ELEVATION DESCENT ACCOMODATION MEALS : BLD DISTANCE 10 KM HIKING HOURS NIL 3550 M CAMPING 5 HOURS Nanga Parbat Rupal Face DAY 3: BAZHIN-SHAIGIRI Trek to Shaigiri five hours. Crossing the Bazhin Glacier takes about 90 minutes along a fairly obvious donkey path. The local shepherds come and go frequently, so you can follow one of them across. From the top of the lateral moraine on the western side, you look down on a huge grassy field known as Tup (about 3,550 metres), which must once have been the bed of a lake.