Guide to the NANGA PARBAT region

Specialized guide to the Nanga Parbat region in the Northern Areas of Pakistan

 
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The region of Pakistans NANGA PARBAT, with 8,125m the 9. highest mountain of the earth, is thoroughly explored and pointed out to the very last details in numerous books and webpages.

But often, all this is bulky, dispersed stuff - not very much accessed, unknown to the casual seeker.
Only somehow myths and serious warnings about the local people have reached to...
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As an private team of this said local people and foreign friends, we would like to offer you here an summary of key-informations, validated by our own experience and knowledge.

We hope, you will find here the selected background-informations, that a sensitive foreign visitor should know, when visiting the region around the isolated western corner pillar of the Himalayas.


About this WebSite
SiteMap | Introduction | "Nanga Parbat Adventure" | News | Feedback | Frequently asked questions

Area and people
Maps | Country facts | Area facts |
Customs and manners | Peoples | Villagelife |
Education | Guenther Mountain School |
Luise Cottage Diamir | Healthsystem

History and politics
Ancient days | Explorers at Nanga Parbat

Travel informations
How to reach Nanga Parbat | Navigation  |
Vehicles | Photography
Preparation
Thinking | Expense | Equipment |
Local diet, food and meals | High Altitude Medicine |
Bureaucratics


Porters and Guides
Government regulations | Porters, Guides and Liaison officers

Trekking styles
Backpacking | Self-organized | Local agent |
Travel-company


Faces of Nanga Parbat
Around Nanga Parbat | Rupal in the South |
Diamir in the West | Raikot in the North |
Mazeno Pass | Samandar Pass


References
Helpful persons | Accomodations | Transport | Local agents | Foreign friends

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About this WebSite for the Nanga Parbat region
Content and structure of this Website about the Nanga Parbat region
Purpose and content of this WebSite about the Nanga Parbat region
Report of Samander Khan regarding finding human remains on Diamer glacier in July 2005
Introduction of the french/pakistan cooperative "Nanga Parbat Adventure" in the Nanga Parbat region
Feedback to the authors and supporters of this website about the Nanga Parbat region

Area and people around the Nanga Parbat
Maps of the Nanga Parbat region in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
Comparision of Pakistan with the home-countries of foreign visitors to the Nanga Parbat region
Comprehensive facts about the Diamer district in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
Customs and manners in the Nanga Parbat region in northern Pakistans Diamer district
Identification of helpful and trustworthy persons of the Nanga Parbat region
Reinhold Messner's school project "Guenther Mountain School Diamer" in Ser
     Examination of Reinhold Messners school project "Guenther Mountain School Diamer" in Ser
Development-project "Luise Cottage Diamir" in Ser, upper Diamir valley
History and politics related to the Nanga Parbat region

Travel informations for the Nanga Parbat region
Description of the access to the Nanga Parbat region in northern Pakistans Diamir district
Navigation coordinates of waypoints to and in the Nanga Parbat region

Preparations for visiting the Nanga Parbat region
Specific items for an serious  cost-calculation for a trekking or expedition in the Nanga Parbat region
Local diet, available food and meals during trekking in the Nanga Parbat region
     Shopping-list for food needed during trekking in the Nanga Parbat region
High Altitude Medicine relating to the Nanga Parbat region

Porters and Guides in the Nanga Parbat region
The system of Porters, Guides and Liaison officers in the Nanga Parbat region

Trekking styles for visiting the Nanga Parbat region

Faces of the Nanga Parbat
Specific altitude problems around Nanga Parbat, on the Diamer, Raikot or Rupal-face
Picture-gallery of the southern side, the Rupalface of Nanga Parbat
Picture-gallery of the most climbed western, the Diamirface of Nanga Parbat
Description of the new roundtrek along the rivers Barai Gah and Bijei Gah over the Samandar Pass


References


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