Welcome to Karakorams.com!

Welcome to Karakorams.com. Ours is a non-profit/largely non-partisan website on trekking in Pakistan. All the information you will find here is based on our personal experience of trekking in the region. Admittedly, we are not hard-core mountaineers but nor are we simply content with just traveling and visiting towns and villages in the Northern Areas.
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Latest News

• Minglik Sar Summitted in July of 2006 by members LAS . Two other members turn back from Purin-e-Ben due to altitude problems. Find the photographs here. Essays coming soon.
• First Pakistani ascent of Skam La took place at 0721hrs, July 31 2003. Photos from the trek are available here
• First winter ascent of Hon Pass (Hunza)
• Photos added from the Karakorams trek to Skam La. Includes photos of the Nobande Sobande and Panmah Glaciers, check it out Skam La photos
• Added essays from the trek to Shimshal, click on the links below under featured essays
• Watch Nazir Sabir Interview with Karakorams.com . You will need real player to view this presentation

Featured Essays

• Running Down a Dream--Shimshal III
• Numb--Part II of the Shimshal Series
• Askole to Skinmang--Ali Akrams Journal--I
• Ali Akram--K2 Journal I
  

About the Content on this Site:

If you are looking for information on Trekking in Pakistan, check out the Resources section, personal travalogues are under Essays and Information and Trek Summaries are under the Treks section. Photographs from our treks are categorized by Trek and year.

Changes have been made to the site layout and the forum/trekker directory sections have been temporarily removed. They will be back up shortly. A Video/Clips section has been added which is original footage that we have taken on our treks. Maps from treks and the region have also been added.

Summit Shot from the First Pakistani Ascent of Skamla, 2003