Over the Shandur Pass

The Shandur Pass is probably most famous for it’s annual polo tournament- a three day festival held in July with teams from Gilgit and Chitral competing for honours in fiercely contested matches. The grounds were established in this most unlikely of places by a British major in the 1930s, apparently based on his predilection for playing polo by moonlight.

Rakaposhi Base Camp

One of the things I was really keen to do when researching Pakistan was the Rakaposhi Base Camp hike. Rakaposhi, in the mighty Karakoram range, is the 27th highest mountain in the world at 7,788 metres, and reaching the base camp from where climbers make their bid for the summit is considered to be one of Pakistan’s ‘easier’ multi-day hikes.