The most picturesque part of Pakistan, Gilgit Baltistan, has been listed as one of the top 25 places to visit in 2025 by a US-based broadcaster.
“The Gilgit Baltistan region in the Karokoram Mountains isn’t the easiest place to get to—flight schedules can be unreliable, roads can be blocked off seasonally—but it has more tantalising peaks than a lemon meringue pie,” Travel reported this week.
Five of the 14 “eight thousand” peaks recognized as the highest in the world are located in the region, according to the journal. This includes K2, which is the second-tallest peak in the world but the most dangerous and hardest.
On July 15, 2023, a view of K2, the second-tallest mountain in the world, from its base camp in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan, in the Karakoram range.
