It is a unique remote corner of earth. For here, in a frozen wilderness a crag, cornices and crevasses, raise towering spires of granite, great snowy peaks with fluted icy ridges and pinnacles that pierce the sky. In the Lesser Karakorams there are equally great peaks such as Rakaposhi (7788m), the dominant giant in Nagar Valley. Its north face is fantastic precipice - 5791 meters of plunging snow and ice. There are scores of over 7000 m peaks in the Karakoram Range and hundreds of nameless summits bellow 6000 m, mere points on the map. The shapes, forms, sizes, colors provide tremendous contrast, which defy description. K-2 the undisputed monarch of the sky, Broad Peak, massive and beautiful, Muztagh Tower, deceptively sheer, Gasherbrum-II, the "Egyptian Pyramid" that even Cheops would have preferred for a tomb, Chogolisa, the "Bride Peak", in whose eternal embrace lies Hermann Buhl, the first man to climb Nanga Parbat. The Cathedrals of Baltoro with their great knife-edge ridges, the sky cleaving monoliths of the Trango Towers and most beautiful of all - The Peak of Perfection - Paiyu, (6600m) first climbed by Pakistani expedition in 1977.

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