We were in the beautiful village of Karimabad relishing our dinner at the roof top of our lodge when somebody mentioned the dirt trail behind the Baltit Fort. It goes to the Base camp of Mount Ultar and to the meadows and its a beautiful track, Karim, our lodge owner, who was our acting mentor in Hunza, replied. But it would be a daunting task, he warned us.

Ultar, like Nanga Parbat is a notorious mountain standing 7388m tall and has claimed quite a few lives of ambitious mountaineers. The summit of Ultar was reached only once till ... (more)