The Central Karakoram National Park exists on paper because of a 1993 declaration. It exists in practice because of a thirty-year scientific partnership between Pakistan and Italy, and because of…
The mountains get the photos, but the cultures of the valleys around CKNP are what most trekkers remember. The buffer zone of the park is home to three distinct ethnic-linguistic…
Outside the Arctic and Antarctic, the Karakoram holds the largest concentration of glacier ice on the planet. Inside the Central Karakoram National Park — just inside our 10,557 km² boundary —…
Most of the questions our team in Skardu fields by email come down to four things: do I need a permit, when can I come, how do I get there,…
People come to the Central Karakoram for the peaks. They leave talking about the wildlife. The mountain ecosystems inside CKNP — from the river-bottom willow groves at 2,000 m to the…
Walk up the Baltoro Glacier from Askole and on day eight the moraine bends, the wind drops, and four of the world’s fourteen 8,000-metre peaks open in a 20-kilometre arc…
