Rakaposhi
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- Best time to go
- May to September
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- limited
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Rakaposhi is a mountain of 7,788 metres in the Karakoram range, one of the most visually commanding peaks visible from the Karakoram Highway in the Hunza Valley. The mountain's southern face rises approximately 5,800 metres in continuous steep terrain from the valley floor at Minapin, one of the greatest vertical rises from inhabited valley to peak in the world. A viewpoint layby on the Karakoram Highway opposite the Minapin glacier tongue is a standard photography stop on the Hunza route. The peak was first climbed in 1958 by a British-Pakistani expedition.
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