MOUNTAIN
AND GLACIER OF BALTISTAN
Baltistan is
proud of having K-2, the world’s second highest mountain. I t has
more than forty five peaks of over 20,000 feet high and is really a
mountaineers’ paradise. The names of the various peaks with their
height and the glaciers.
Baltoro Muztagh of the Great Karakoran:
| 1.K-2(mondt
Godwin Austin): |
28,250 ft |
| 2 Skyang
Kangri: |
24,751 ft. |
| 3.Broad
Peak: |
26,550 ft |
| 4.Gasherbrum 1 (Hiddeen Peak): |
26,470 ft. |
| 5.Gasherbrum 11: |
26,360 ft. |
| 6.
Gasherbrum 111 |
26,090 ft. |
| 7.Gasherbrum 1V (K-3) |
26,180 ft. |
| 8.Gasherbrum V |
24,019 ft. |
| 9.Gaherbrum V1 |
22,976 ft. |
| 10.Muztagh
Tower |
23,800 ft. |
| 11.Ghogholisa (Bride Peak) |
25,110 ft. |
| 12.Baltoro
Kangri (Golden Throne) |
23,989 ft. There are 5
other small peaks. |
| 13.Paiju
peak |
21,654 ft. |
| 14.Trango
Towers |
21,706 ft. |
| 15.Mitro
peak |
19,711 ft. |
| 16.Mangu
Gusor |
20,630 ft. |
| 17.Black
Tooth |
22,044
ft. |
| 18.Bial
peak |
22,077 ft. |
| 19.Crystal
peak |
20,463
ft. |
| 20. Biange
peak |
21,070
ft. |
| 21.Biarchedi |
20,390
ft. |
| 22. Sia
Kangri |
24,350 ft. |
| 23. Urdak
peak 1 |
24,619 ft. |
| 24. Urdak
peak 11 |
23,235 ft. |
| 25. Abruzi
Saddle |
24,934 ft. |
| 26. Marble
peak |
20,466 ft. |
Masherbrum Range
| 1.
Masherbrum (K-1) |
25,660 ft. |
| 2. K-6 |
23,890 ft. |
| 3.
Dansamn (K-13) |
21,870 ft. |
| 4. Mount
gent (Kundus peak) |
24,278
ft. |
| 5. Skil
Brum |
24,344
ft. |
| 6. Pioneer
peak |
22,172 ft. |
| 7. K-7 |
22,753
ft. |
| 8. Urdokas
massive |
20,892 ft. |
| 9. Liligio
peak |
20,508 ft. |
Saltoro Rande in
western Karakoram.
| 1. Saltoro
Kangri (Peak 36) |
25,400 ft |
| 2.Sherpr
Kangri |
23,960 ft. |
| 3.K-12
(peak 8) |
24,503 ft. |
| 4.Mount
Chent (Kondus peak) |
24,278 ft. |
Panmah Muztagh
Range.
| 1.Ogri peak |
23,900 ft. |
| 2.Baintha
Brakk |
22,044
ft. |
| 3.Snow Lake |
21,630 ft. |
| 4. B.15 |
23,914 ft. |
| 5.Peak |
21,350 ft. |
Siachen Muztagh.
| 1.Teram
Kangri |
24,489
ft. |
| 2. Mount
Rose |
23,604
ft. |
| 3.Apose |
23695 ft. |
Baltistan
is also the land of vast glaciers. Baltoro is an enormous glacier
estimated to be 36 miles long and one to two and half miles broad.
It is one of the longest traverse outside the Polar region. Biafo is
another vast glacier estimated to be 54 miles long in almost
perfectly straight line.
The
Biafo-Hispar glacier together form a passage of 76 miles which is
the longest glacier traverse, outside the Arctic region. Biofo
glacer was first visited by Sir Martin Conway in 1892 who approached
it via the Hunza Gorge and Hispar Glacier. Seen from the Hispar pass
the great ice basin forming the upper part of the Biafo gave the
impression that it was a totally enclosed “ Lake” the outflow not
being immediately obvious. Conway, therefore, called it the “Snow
Lake” a misnomer which still persists.The Biafo flows from the Snow
Lake south-eastwards towards the Baldur valley, Its snout, moraine
covered, still reaching into the valley in 1956 Biafo-Hispar have a
panorama of superlative grandeur of one the most magnificent
landscapes of the world, Martin Conway has described it as wonder of
the earth, ‘the memory of which clings while life lasts’.
Siachen glacier is 46 miles long in the eastern Karakoran between
siachen Muztagh and Saltoro range-latitude:3.5.11 to 35.44 N
longitude: 76.40 to 77.013 E. It drains out to Nubra river, a small
tributary of Shyok river.
Rimo glacier is situated in the eastern Karakoram and drains into
the Shyok river, an important tributary of the Indus.
Godwin
Austen glacier is situated in the north of Baltoro in the eastern
Karakoram and leads to the world’s second highest peak K-2, in
the north.
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