21/08/2020
A brief introduction to Hopar Valley before taking you all to beautiful Rush Lake 😊
Hopar Valley
Hopar Valley is a cluster of villages around a natural bowl at a bend of Baltoro Glacier. Opposite to Hopar the white Bualtar is joined by the Barpu Glacier. This is a base camp for treks into the high, glacier-draped peaks called the Hispar Muztagh.
The valley has a number of natural formations, including glaciers, lakes, and high mountains.
Glaciers
There are three glaciers in the valley:
1. Hoper glacier
2. Barpu glacier
3. Mier glacier
Lakes
'Rush Lake Hoper' is the most visited tourist destination in the valley. Rush Lake Hoper is situated in Nagar District Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan. It is located at the middle of Rush Peak, at over 4,694 meters. Rush Lake is one of the highest alpine lakes in the world. It is 2nd highest elevated lake in South Asia. In the surrounding area are green pastures - which support local domessticated and wild animals. This includes local animals like goats, yaks and sheep, and wild animals like Himalayan ibex, retch, fox and snow leopard. The Pakistan National Bird, chakour, is also found.
Mountains
The valley is home to many high mountains such as Golden peak or Spantik (7027m), Bawalter peak (from where Hoper glacier starts), Rush Peak and Miar peak(7257m). while the other series of mountains view from Rush peak like K2, Passu Peak, Diran Peak, Rakaposhi, Ultar Peak etc..
P.S. This group picture is taken before we started our trek towards Rush Lake..
Stay tuned to see some mesmerizing pictures and videos from our trek to Rush Lake 😊