The southern Rupalface of Nanga Parbat (Page 2 of 5)

Picture-gallery of the southern, the Rupalface of Nanga Parbat (click to enlarge the pictures)

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From the campsite at Bazhin Glacier (3.650m) it is an five hours walk to the campsite Shaigiri, an area which belongs to the Tarishing-people who are strict Shia-Muslims of Balti descents. First one has to cross the 913m broad Bazhin Glacier on a donkey-path which takes about 90 minutes and needs sometimes crossing crevasses. Sometimes the route is hard to find, specially in foul-weather with fog, which is not seldom on the south-side of Nanga Parbat.

Crossing of the Bazhin-glacier needs sometimes route-finding and bridge-building

After crossing the glacier, from the moraine one can look down to the famous Tup-alp (3.550m), a green alpine pasture and some shepherds summer-settlement. The route follow to the west-side of this Tup-alp where one reaches the socalled 1st Herrligkoffer-Base-Camp, named after the german mountaineering organizer. From here it is about one hour flat walk around a morain to another green flat area, called 2nd Herrligkoffer-Base-Camp below a moraine with a glacier-lake on top of it. From there it is about 30 minutes along the Rupal river to the Shaigiri-campsite (3.660m), a green flat pasture. From here one has the best view of the whole southern Rupal-side of Nanga Parbat. The summit is about 5.84km air-distance away.This place is worth to spent an acclimatization-restday. Specially in the early morning one has a fascinating view of the Nanga Parbat - insha allah.

Reaching the famous Tup-alp (grrens below); Right picture: view from Shaigiri-campsite to the Rupal-face