Karakoram! Have you ever thought about what’s so fascinating about the mountains? Some people are just in love with them, while some just hate the twists and turns and prefer being a water baby.
Well, the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Mountain ranges are something we have anyhow come across in our geography books, and so have a few experiences we’ve carried in and around the place we live. Some people are super lucky to be called pahadi and live a mountain life, while others have to actually plan a trip.
People head towards the mountains to get fresh oxygen, while some want to refresh. Others feel the need to live a calm, quiet, natural life and prefer not just visiting but settling there.
Monsoon is a good season to enjoy the greenery, while summer will give you a good morning breeze and evening coolness, and winter is super cool.
Some mountains are green and lush with flowers and wildlife. Such a delight to see so much abundance naturally grown without a farmer’s hand. Just god’s beauty. Sometimes we feel god must be an artist.
With such beauty, he has put it into the natural ranges across the world. You see the purity in the water, weather, flora, and fauna. You can’t get your eyes off the beautiful flowers, trees, plants, and natural structures, which is unimaginable and beyond the human mind.
Our phones can’t even handle the storage for all the reels and pictures we want to take in the mountains. Many artists and naturalists discover new version of nature’s delight that keeps adding to their artwork and research.
Many of us just like to chill and relax on our vacation, and we’ve definitely come across some people enjoying the real mountain experience. Beating the luxury ahead and hopping into cars that take you up there, you will see them walk with loads on their backpack.
Either they are there for a week or a month or even more. Walking through the trails and tough routes called treks, they are definitely well trained for that.
Well, you got me right; I’m talking about those trekkers and mountaineers. We also come across the local villagers whose daily chores involve climbing within their village and on their house premises. For their daily needs, they either climb to a market or descend, then climb back up to stock up for the month. That’s how your maggies get expensive up there. Living that life is what we all dream of, but its tough climb and stay up there.
We’ve come across different ranges and are able to explore a few. Your city might have some, the state might have some, and the country too. Across the world, the mountain ranges are beautiful and have created structures and greenery. Humans have built borders, or else we are all connected so well with the natural elements around us. We’ve even named them, segregated them, and marked them with ranges.
The Google Maps geography will show you a lot of such ranges and the number of kilometers they span. Not all can be climbed due to their structure, and not all areas have human existence either. There is a certain height where humans can live and sustain a daily life. Daily needs are accessible to a certain limit. The state government can support and provide basic daily needs only up to a certain height.
But the adventure freaks carry and build a system to climb to a certain height and reach summits. But here, there are also certain limits, and less is what you can do even then.
Karokaram Peak - Nirmal Purja is resting up there
One of the giant peaks, also known as the Broad Peak, borders India and other countries. It’s not a place you can live or go for a vacation. Here, you need immense training, fitness, and mountaineering experience. It counts as one of Asia’s big mountain ranges. It’s every mountaineer’s dream to summit it. It also has K2, the worlds second and highest peak.
It has several massive glaciers and rough patches that make it a difficult technical climb. It’s also part of the Trans-Himalayan ranges and is very vast. It’s called the black gravel.
Many mountaineers camp here at base camp for months, and with professional Sherpas and climbers, they tend to summit. There is global research, study, and training that one needs to get to reach up there. International climbers only are able to accomplish it. When you Google it, you will say wow its beautiful but it’s not that easy to reach up there.
In a recent incident of a massive avalanche, Nims dai urf Nirmal Purja, a world-famous mountaineer, lost his life along with 9 other climbers here, which is international news now.
