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Experiences & Interests

Trips around a single passion

Trekking, photography, autumn colour, food, festivals. Built around what you actually came for.

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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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