Touch the Passu
A new route has been opened at Passu Cones base. Where you can reach in 20 minutes of Jeep trek from Main KKH Highway. This point can be accessible when you move from KKH to Shimshal Valley. It is just a 20 minute jeep trek opened this winter Feb 2021. You can touch the Passu Cones at this point as it is main base of Passu Cones. This point is now accessible for tourists as well. Hire a jeep to reach at this point. You can book Detravelia for services.
Passu is a small village located near Gulmit in the Gilgit Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. Passu is located in Gojal Valley, sub division of District Hunza. Karakoram Highway in Upper Hunza, Passu is a popular tourist destination because of its easily accessible sweeping landscapes, and vistas of the 7,478 m (24,534 ft.) tall Passu Sar mountain, the Passu Glacier, and Tupopdan 6,106m (20,033 ft.).
It lies very near the tongue of the Passu Glacier, and just south of the tongue of the Batura Glacier. Borith Lake is a large water feature below the Hussaini village in the area. It is the most photographed peak of the region. Also nearby are the high peaks of Passu Sar, Shispare Sar, and Batura.
Karakorum Mountain Range which dominates the other two mountain ranges of the Himalayas and the the Hindu Kush in the northern areas of the Pakistan not only has four of the fourteen eight thousands of the world, including the seconder highest mountain peak of K2, it also has a large number of seven thousands’ and awesomely beautiful mountain peaks. While I have been talking of other eight thousands’ of Pakistan, let me digress from these and talk about one of the most photographed mountain shapes and tops – the Passu Cones.
Batura glacier
The Batura Muztagh mountains are a sub-range of the Karakoram mountain range. They are located in between central Hunza and upper Hunza(Gojal valley) in the Hunza district of the Gilgit-Baltistan province in northern Pakistan.
There are two suspension bridges over River Hunza for trekkers to further their adventures on foot to explore the mountains and glaciers ahead. These two bridges are known as the Hussaini Bridge (photo above) and the Passu Bridge. It really requires guts to walk across these bridge as these are not in a very good state of maintenance.
Passu Bridge (Hussaini Bridge)
