Lukpe Lawo (Snow Lake) 4877 m
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Lukpe Lawo, is a high-altitude glacial basin in the Karakoram mountain range in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.
Snow Lake is located 16,000 feet (4,877 m) above sea level, and is approximately 10 miles (16 km) wide. The basin lies at the head of the Biafo and Hispar glaciers, which spread down from the Hispar Pass in opposite directions, forming a 61 mile (100 km) river of ice that is among the world's longest continuous glacier systems outside of the polar regions.
Martin Conway, the first foreign visitor, gave Snow Lake the name in 1892. Conway described Snow Lake as "beyond all comparison the finest view of mountains it has ever been my lot to behold, nor do I believe the world can hold a finer."[2] Snow Lake is very difficult to reach, however, and only about 200 people manage to reach it per year.[3] In 1899, the husband-wife team of William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman came and speculated that Snow Lake might be an ice-cap like those in the polar regions, from which glaciers flowed out in all directions, and estimated its total size at 300 square miles (116 square kilometres).
Snow Lake is located 16,000 feet (4,877 m) above sea level, and is approximately 10 miles (16 km) wide. The basin lies at the head of the Biafo and Hispar glaciers, which spread down from the Hispar Pass in opposite directions, forming a 61 mile (100 km) river of ice that is among the world's longest continuous glacier systems outside of the polar regions.
Martin Conway, the first foreign visitor, gave Snow Lake the name in 1892. Conway described Snow Lake as "beyond all comparison the finest view of mountains it has ever been my lot to behold, nor do I believe the world can hold a finer."[2] Snow Lake is very difficult to reach, however, and only about 200 people manage to reach it per year.[3] In 1899, the husband-wife team of William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman came and speculated that Snow Lake might be an ice-cap like those in the polar regions, from which glaciers flowed out in all directions, and estimated its total size at 300 square miles (116 square kilometres).
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Lake_(Pakistan)
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Coordinates: 36°4'7"N 75°34'7"E
- Biafo Glacier 2.8 km
- Virjerab Glacier 30 km
- Hispar Glacier 51 km
- Sarpo Laggo Glacier 53 km
- Chogo Lungma Glacier 57 km
- Baltoro Glacier 63 km
- Siachen Glacier 119 km
- Batura Glacier 123 km
- Teram Shehr Glacier 145 km
- Central Rimo Glacier 172 km
- Khurdopin pass 6 km
- Kanjut Sar I (7760m) 20 km
- Yutmaru Sar (7,283 m/23,894 ft) 25 km
- Yukshin Gardan Sar (7,530 m/24,700 ft) 27 km
- Yukshin Gardan Glacier 28 km
- Pumari Chhish (7492 m) 33 km
- Mingli Sar (6050 M) 46 km
- Braldu Valley 49 km
- Nagar-1 58 km
- Shaksgam Valley 102 km
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