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There are many miracles on this planet and it's to no surprise that many of them are right here in Pakistan
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When I trekked to Ketu, the world's second tallest mountain, just over a year ago, there was a valley close by, deep in the Karakoram mountain rains that I dreamt of seeing for myself
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So, for the next three days, I will be trekking to what I can only describe as paradise
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through rugged terrain, winding steep valleys and alongside glacier rivers to reach
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Before I began trekking I had to reach a village named Khandai
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So on day one our mission was to drive from Skadu City alongside the Indus River through Ganshe towards Kaplu and then up north towards Khandai
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The drive would take us around five to six hours and the beauty of this region here in Baltistan is how vast the landscapes are
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All around you are huge, towering mountain peaks covered in snow. And as you drive closer and closer to Kandai, the peaks only become more giant, with peaks becoming a minimum of 6,000 metres all around you
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We have just arrived to the village of Kandai. This is around 3000 meters in altitude. It is just before 9 o'clock
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It only took us roughly around five hours to reach us to a little bit shorter than I thought
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This is gonna be our base for this evening before we trek to Nagma Valley tomorrow morning
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I'm very happy to have arrived. Let's eat, sleep and I'll see you tomorrow morning
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Good morning everybody. It is 7.45 a.m. I'm ready to go. I'm up. I've had breakfast, some chai
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and I've woken up to the most incredible views. You can see behind the huge snow-cut peaks
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I'm heading into this valley just over here. What I can hear right now are all the children going to
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school. It is such a beautiful sight. They're running through the valleys. There's roosters
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what a peaceful place I slept so good and I'm really excited
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I dreamt of doing this trek for such a long time and I'm so, so happy
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I'm blessed that I'm doing it all thanks to Asif shall we go
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I'm roughly about one hour into the trick. I'm a little bit short for breath. The terrain
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is a little tough we've gone down the valley to come back up across the river
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as you can see we've around we're now in altitude of around 3100 meters and we're
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heading up here I am panting a lot
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I'm just about to hit the steepest part of the Inishiming Plane, straight up this valley
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I'm so happy that it's sunny so I can see the beautiful peaks of the mountains
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However, when you're hiking, this is not where you are. It is extremely hot and dusty
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It is 10.31. I am around two hours into the hike. We left a little bit later than originally intended
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because we had to pick up some things from the market and we ended up giving some sweets to the local children on their way to school
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And yeah, I've officially hit my flow state. I love this state that you get when you're hiking
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level and uh yeah it feels like flying down the mountain i'm not going so fast because i want my
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body to get used to the altitude we are now at just about to touch 3500 meters and i can see
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laguma valley just in front of me the sheer rock with snow covering all of the peaks
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i cannot wait to arrive wow Wow. Our first task today is to get to Mingolo Brat camp
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This is 625 metres above where we began, down in Khandai at 2920 metres
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We're heading up a further 625 metres and usually this is where trekkers stop and they stop
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for the day, they enjoy and they camp overnight and then the next day they head to Nagmar
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Valley which is a further 500 metres above where we were in Mokola Brock
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However I'm feeling good, I'm feeling excited, I have no altitude sickness, I'm feeling
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strong and the weather is beautiful so I think we've agreed as a team to head
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straight to Nagma we're gonna skip Mingolab Rock and camp in Nagma directly
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so I'm really excited we're gonna head on it's another around 15 minutes to the
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first camp it's 11.05 which means we've arrived we will arrive inshallah
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to which means we will arrive to the next camp at three hours instead of four
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so we are making good time and then the nagma camp further on is around another hour at our speed
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i think so yeah i'm feeling good i'm ready i'm excited the weather is beautiful there is a rainbow
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above my head recovered by snowcat peaks and i'm currently at 3550 meters high
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i feel so blessed It is 11.31pm, I'm just arriving into Mingolo Brook at 3,561m
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We're going to stop for lunch and refuel. I love you
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We ended up staying in the camp for over two and a half hours just down in the valley and
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yeah we were loving it it was such a beautiful beautiful place with good conversation amazing
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lunch full of baby yak and cow and good hot hot chai. Now we've continued the journey roughly
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only one hour to go and we climbing to an altitude of around 4 meters towards Nagmar Valley and this I don want to say it too early but I think from what I have witnessed already and what I can see in front of me this could
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potentially be one of the most naturally beautiful places I've ever been to in my
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entire life. Wow! Thank you
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Welcome to one of the most beautiful places of Baltistan
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Welcome to Nagmavali. I can't believe the beauty that is right behind me
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This, I think, is the most beautiful place naturally that I've been to in Pakistan
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The sheer scale of these mountains, there's glaciers above. I'm really, I'm really blown away. I don't know what to say
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Beautiful day of hiking, beautiful day of trekking with Asif and everyone else
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I just...I can't believe I'm here. So grateful. There it is
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Good job, man. Yep. There it is. Good job, man. Yep. Yep
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Wow, prepared by a sip
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It's so good. Thank you
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okay team this is my tent for this evening wow i think this 100 is the most beautiful place i
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found in pakistan it's naturally just so sublime and this is going to be my home for the night
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i'm going to stay here i'm going to sleep under the stars hopefully i can get some good videos
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photos of the Milky Way let's see right now there is currently a full moon which
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is gonna be amazing and honestly right now I'm just feeling very overwhelmed
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with the beauty here I uh I keep crying honestly this is uh this is just I can even find the words it just
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it's so mesmerizing. The world is full of so many miracles, and I'm looking right now
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and I'm staying here in one. in one. No more words left
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The sun has almost set on what has been one of the most incredible days of my life
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This place is beyond words and I'm so excited to be waking up tomorrow morning, unzipping
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my tent and watching the sunrise. Tomorrow morning we're actually heading on another small expedition to the peak just up here
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And hopefully we will watch the sun come up and light the valley pink
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Let's see. For now I'm going to say goodnight. We will eat some dinner and then I will rest really well and wake up tomorrow morning
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I'm just in disbelief that I'm here. I am so emotional. I'm so happy. This is one of the happiest days of my life
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It's so, so beautiful. Okay, goodnight. See you in the morning. I'm sorry
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I've just arrived back here in Scaldew City
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and that has to be one of the most incredible adventures of my life
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That by far is the most beautiful place naturally that I've seen here in Baltistan
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I loved every single second from the hike to staying and camping overnight
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seeing the stars, seeing Jupiter and watching the full moon grate itself across the sky
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I feel incredibly blessed and honoured to have had the chance to go back to this beautiful
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beautiful phenomenal stunning area of Pakistan I have to say I never want to leave there has been
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many opportunities for me to leave on other journeys and I find myself still here in Skardu
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I think as I mentioned in the last video something needs to be done about this perhaps in the next
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video I might tell you that I'm moving here inshallah that can happen let's see but I'm leaving
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you from this video, very happy, very inspired and very blessed. Thank you so much for watching
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I'll see you guys in the next adventure somewhere probably here in Pakistan. Bye
