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Baltistan
Hushe Valley
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Nirth Pakistan


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Happy Stone Fence Friday

Happy  Stone Fence Friday
From the remote Baltistan village of Machlu in the Hushe Valley on the treacherous dirt road to K2 trek start point. A very conservative area of remote Baltistan, but friendly and welcoming to polite visitors. Many Western mountaineers come up along here to climb K2 or one of the other multitude of 7-8000m plus peaks in this region. . But it is much quieter and less mountaineered than Nepal or Everest. A few die up here on the peaks each year.
The stone walls are their fencing here as timber is in short supply. These are poor subsistence farming villages.
Have a fab Friday and a spectacular photographic weekend!

Leo W, aNNa schramm, Berny, Denis Croissant and 46 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Amelia
Amelia club
Eking out a living, and hoping that the relatively lush valleys will provide enough food for the winter. A hard life, but in spectacular surroundings.
8 weeks ago.
 Franck Chabal
Franck Chabal
HFF
8 weeks ago.
 Patrick Brandy
Patrick Brandy club
Vraiment un magnifique endroit merci pour l'info bonne journée.
8 weeks ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
A great capture Diana. As you say, a lot of stone fences about (not heard of them before -I thought they were called walls :) Well done.

HFF, have a great weekend. Herb
8 weeks ago.
 Dinesh
Dinesh club
HFF / Best wishes
8 weeks ago.

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