Magnificent. Whoa - let me try to catch my breath.
Magnificent. Whoa - let me try to catch my breath.
Incredibly beautiful! Oddly enough, kind of makes me think of driving through the mountains of Alberta & British Columbia.
Do they drive on the left?
Pakistan, having been part of the British Empire when the road rules were established, probably, yes.
They drive wherever they feel like, at the time. Watch "ItchyBoots" latest vlog on YouTube.
Not as paved as you think...https://youtu.be/ZlAlJipgFDo?si=MEEtXgNprY87Hs6U
This is an incredible majestic view. Breathtaking.
Wow
Thank you for sharing
Itchy Boots 😉
Stunning!
As someone from the Netherlands with lows upto 5m below sea level this is insane.
Check out Itchy Boots youtube channel. She's from your neck of the woods, solo world traveler on a motorcycle and currently posting from this area of the map.
Amazing that we can just watch that, as if we are driving down that road.
I would like to see the rest of this video. 🎢
Actually did find some interesting travelogues on You Tube about this highway- thank you for expanding my worldview!
Stunning. Wow.
Another one, the highest in the US, is Loveland Pass in Colorado. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovelan...
Spectacular view. 💖
Keep your AI slop trash on twitter you invasive species!
Wow, those mountains are massive!
And I thought Vail Pass was high...
... this is about 400m higher than the *summit* of Mt. Evans. The passes don't even compare :D
Wow! Quite a ride.
Check your brakes first!!
MAGA wants to tear it down and replace it with Drumpf
Not long enough! I'd love to see more. ❤️
I grew up in Colorado and these mountains are far more ominous than anywhere I've ever seen 😬
GORGEOUS
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Day-am! Now those are some MOUNTAINS!
Just Stupendous!!! 💥💥💥
Super super cool. Thanks for posting!
From one biker to another, that’s fucking fantastic! Great ride!
Wow!
It looks unreal!
Wow!
Wow 🤩
This world is so incredibly gorgeous...if only humans weren't so intent on fucking it all up.
Wow!!! What an amazing view!
Breathtaking scenery!! 👍👍
And yet, Mother Earth is the most beautiful and glorious scene!
Done that….awesome journey
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Gorgeous!
🤩🤩
Stunning view!! 🫶
That is absolutely exquisite, thanks for posting 🙏
That is awesome!
I'd be terrified to drive it 'cause I'd be totally looking at the BEAUTIFUL scenery and drive over the f'ing cliff.
Haha that's exactly what this photographer said! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc-m...
Thank you for the wonderful video. I ride a motorcycle too, so yeah, would need to be a bus passenger looking out the window.
Holy crap. I thought this was one of those AI-generated videos. Those mountains look like they're the map border in a video game. I had to look it up to verify it's real. That's stunning.
Too beautiful to look real
How nice for you.
Incredible beauty
WOW!!!!
Breathtaking!
That looks like a beautiful ride! Just amazing!!! Thanks for posting Luca!
Walked this highway in 92,93 incredible! Karachi to Kashgar bestvplace in the world hello Gilgit my favouritecplace oncearth💕🇺🇦💙💕💕💕💕🇨🇦🇨🇦
Been there, crazy shit that road and all the drivers.
Beautiful!
Yeah baby, now we’re talkin’
Paved road maybe, but this doesn’t look like a highway to me
Wow! Beautiful
"I want to see mountains again"
nothing for drivers who live near sea level
That looks like a video game sky box. That's a little bit scary.
I was thinking those mountains look like those in Skyrim.
Spectacular!
Wow! Fabulous!
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
I travelled that road from Abbottabad to Gilgit years ago. It's terrifying in places, but absolutely beautiful.
Chase the sun, brother.
That was wonderful to see. Thanks for sharing.
Pakistan is an amazing country.
Wow
If curious, that’s 15,400 ft. or so above sea level
I visited that area in about 2000. Stunning!!
Breathtaking!
Damn that's beautiful!
Magnificent!
Arghh....I thought driving round S Spain in May was bad enough.....very brave people, doing this!
Gorgeous!
Beautiful!
😲
Wow. Amazing engineering. Respect to the engineers and condolences to the families of those who died during the project.
Beautiful!
Amazing
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So beautiful!
Outstanding video and must visit 👏
Bellissimo! 💖
So beautiful. I lived and worked in that region for 4 years, travelling up and down the KKH and that’s exactly what it looks like.
Check out the million dollar highway in between Ouray and Silverton. That is 11000
Feet not meters. 15, 000 feet, Wow! Colorado has a lot of Fourteeners.The drop-offs, no side rails. It's scary. Scary
You’re driving on the wrong side of the road! Oh..wait never mind!🤷🏻♂️😉
I would love to go there.
Wow absolutely stunning ♥️
Amazing 🤩
How beautiful
Schoen!
Wow earth is so beautiful holy cow
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That is beautiful!
Incredible!
Beautiful scenery, but I think I'm a little carsick now! 🫣😑🫨
Totally high moutains as I imagined, beautiful!
Gorgeous
Stunning
Wow.
Those are some angry mountains.
Slow TV should make a video of this drive. I would watch it.
Awesome, despite what the workers were smoking 🤣😂
Awesome! 👍
Gorgeous
Big volcano.
We traveled by public bus from Arequipa to somewhere in the Colca Valley in Peru. A sealed road that goes over 5000 meters. One (young) chap requiring oxygen that the bus carried with it.
Made that same trip! We were in the Colca Valley during 9/11. A date and a place you'd never forget.
Oh my.
I remember taking that route back in the 90s. The odd thing was that the highest part looked like it was a flat lowland area with mountain peaks in the distance. Except for the lack of air, you wouldn't have known how high you were.
Sadly, building paved roads on fragile high mountains (youngest, still growing) invites frequent landslides and ecological damage. High price to pay for incredible views (all across the Himalaya)
I'd love to ride that.
Wow
Those peaks and couloirs are beautiful!
WOW! That’s absolutely amazing!!
I don’t know if I was driving down that road I would’ve certainly view it off.. those mountains are too distracting…gorgeous though.
That's a pretty decent road. Usually in that neck of the woods we just see passes that look like trucks have to cling to the rock face with just a couple of fingernails.
Respectfully, what the FUCK 🤯
Interesting. Don’t think I will visit here. Thanks for sharing so I can say I saw it.
Brilliant engineering!
Beautiful 😍
It's stunning!
Breathtaking
I would love to cycle that, after months of altitude acclimitization.
Just WOW 🤩
I’m watching the Vuelta right now and picturing a bike race through these. 😬
YIKES 😬
Woooooo !
AMAZING!
Breath taking
Wow… the VIEW is incredible!
Astonishing beauty
Wow! Impressive
It's a pity it's surrounded by shithole countries...
Wow 🤩
Gilgit-Blatistan is fuckin rad, man!
WOW 💘 Beautiful.
Wow eerie 😮
Wow ❤️
English road signs, surreal.
🤯
Wow
Stunning view. That looks quite close to Passu. They've really improved the road since I was there in 2000!
Stunning. Thanks for sharing.
Freaking amazing! Thank you!
Looks like the mtns of Mordor.
Beautiful
That’s a definite WOW 🤩
Wow!!
No way would I get on that road. I’m terrified of driving mountain roads.
Do caars even run at 14,100' ASL? When I was flying in unpressurized aircraft, we had to be on oxygen about 10,000'.
Drinking beer at that altitude is totally different. One large beer can really get you tipsy. Electric cars can zip right up. Go EV!
Considering you can drive to the top of some mountains in Colorado, yes everyone is fine. Oxygen is only for like 20,000 feet and up.
Spend a couple of hours at 14,100 if you're not acclimated and then tell me it's only for like 20,000 feet and up. I've seen men tough it out at 15,000' get seriously disoriented in fairly short order.
I mean, I’ve driven to the top of Mount Evans and don’t live in CO, so I personally was fine. I’m in decent shape, though. Certainly didn’t need oxygen.
Correct. I regularly hike 14ers in Colorado (peaks above 14000 feet) and have not felt any clear loss of breathing ability on summits. If your cardio isn't super good and you're not used to such elevation, however, you will notice a slight thinness at such altitudes.
I got really dizzy on the Zugspitze at about 3000m - but I did go up on my second day of the holiday and usually live at sea level.
Was okay above 5000 meters in Perú. Everything definitely moves slower. I moved slower and every 100m up was even harder.
The best thing is that after a few weeks of living at the high attitudes going back to much lower elevations means working out becomes a lot easier. :D
Yep! I also noticed when I was around Colorado that I could probably count the number of really overweight people I saw on one hand. Everyone just seemed super fit in general. Probably have to be with all the hills.
I was going to mention our 14ers - but the structure of these is spectacular.
During WW1, 15,000ft was pretty much the ceiling for naturally aspirated engines and pilots without oxygen. The engines ran like bags of crap at that altitude, and the pilots were generally young and fit though.
Yep. I've driven a non-fuel injected Ford Fiesta at 15,272ft through Tajikistan's Ak-Baital Pass. The car still runs, but you lose a hell of a lot of power so it doesn't tackle inclines very well.
I think 10k' has quite some margin built in. But also keep in mind, that you reach 10000' within a few minutes in a plane (often from close to sea level) while you it takes you way longer by road to get up there. Giving your body more time to adapt.
Good point.
… with the altitude encoder turned off, you’re fine to 16,000 feet! 😁
Most people blame UK for colonialism in general, while they should for the non-metric system and (here) the driving side... 🤔
Majestic Mountains ⛰️
👍🏻 wow
Is paved road at 4700m (-15,400 feet)? From video, what trees grow at there? Hiked Mt Whitney California at 14,505 feet; from above 11,000 feet no trees - no shade from intense sun at altitude - that is, no trees of those populate the California high Sierras (eg, Sequoias, Sierra pines, aspens).
Gorgeous
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Er,what´s it like in winter.....
Wow! Stunning.
Jesus,, that’s awesome
Wow
i feel oxygen deprived just looking at this vid.
wow. the air is so clear. the air & perspective - the peaks dont even look real “Where the Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China over the Khunjerab Pass at 4700m above sea level, one of the highest paved roads in the world”
I take this road 27 years ago so great
This is gorgeous
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It's An Amazing, Really Cool Very Inspiring Video. Thanks For Posting
You are most welcome 😊
I've been along this highway
I'm surprised road signs are in English
Somewhat of a lingua franca in south Asia. The local language changes every few hours along the highway.
Those mountains look deadly
Smooth and mesmerizing video
Wow!
Wow!!!
Oh, my goodness!
Pakhtunkhwa and Kashmir have some of the tallest mountains and the greatest number of glaciers of any region in the world. It's rather amusing reading one person on here accusing the poster of artificially making the mountains seem taller. They *are* the tallest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY3z...
When I travelled in that region i could see clouds hiding what i thought were the peaks, then i caught a glimpse of something way higher in the sky, it was the actual peak, i just hadn’t seen anything that massive before
I love the fact that Chinese travellers are now exploring the region again for the first time in nearly 2000 years. Hopefully in a few years it'll be possible to take a train from the Indian Ocean coast of Baluchistan all the way through the Himalayas to Turan and Siberia to the Arctic circle.
What's the elevation st the valley floor there? So, how much do those mountains rise from their base? I just checked and saw 15,000 and 23,000 feet for a couple of them. That's wild. Ours rise 6-8,000 feet in my county in Nevada.
Watch the video where the photographer discusses exactly that. Quite simply, the mountains anywhere else pale into insignificance. There's nothing quite like seeing the snowcapped cloud kissed mountains in the distance beyond fields of golden wheat while you're fishing in the Indus river.
Thanks. Simply incredible.
Incredible! What a spectacular area.
Wow! That's breathtaking. Probably literally.
yes...
Nothing like a few little mountains to make a person feel very small
the paving is beautiful ! 😅
I like Gilgit
Oh, woooow!!😮😮
A new addition to my bucket list.
You are welcome.
Thank you! Following.
Those mountains look like teeth!!
That is stunning landscape.
Otherworldly… Outstanding scenery.
Amazed