Experiences & Interests
Trips around a single passion
Trekking, photography, autumn colour, food, festivals. Built around what you actually came for.
In this chapter
The K2 Base Camp Trek: Everything You Need to Know
Two weeks, one of the great walks on earth. The route day by day, what it costs, what it takes, and who has no business attempting it.
13 min
Rakaposhi Base Camp: The Short Trek with the Big View
Three days, one of the easiest base-camp treks in the Karakoram, and a wall of 7,788 m ice at the end. The trip we suggest when clients want a taste of the high mountains without committing two weeks.
8 min
The Patundas Trek: A Quiet Alternative to Rakaposhi BC
Patundas is the trek we suggest when clients want what Rakaposhi base camp offers but with one fewer person on the trail and a 360-degree summit-plateau finish.
7 min
Concordia: The Trek Beneath Four Eight-Thousanders
Concordia is the amphitheatre at the meeting of the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers, surrounded by four of the world's fourteen 8,000-metre peaks. The walk to it is one of the great treks on earth.
10 min
Snow Lake and the Biafo-Hispar Traverse
The Biafo-Hispar traverse crosses 100 km of glacier and tops out at Snow Lake, one of the great wilderness walks left on earth. We run it as a 21-day expedition.
9 min
Trekking Around Nanga Parbat: Three Routes Worth Doing
Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain on earth and one of the most photographed faces in the Karakoram. Three trekking routes, three completely different experiences.
8 min
A week of suppers in Lahore
Seven evenings, seven kitchens, and what they taught us about the city's relationship with its food.
9 min
Eating Across Pakistan: A Food Trail from Lahore to Hunza
Food is half of why people come back to Pakistan. A region-by-region map of what to eat and the kitchens we keep returning to.
9 min
Autumn in Hunza: When the Valley Turns Gold
For three weeks each October the valley becomes one continuous corridor of gold. Most people miss it by a week in either direction.
7 min
A Year of Festivals in Pakistan
Five festivals are worth shaping a trip around. Here is the calendar and what each one is really like on the ground.
8 min
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