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Research at CKNP — Pyramid Lab, Glaciology, Wildlife & Climate
The Central Karakoram has been a research site since the British Great Trigonometrical Survey first measured K2 in 1856. The science continues today: glaciology, climate, biodiversity, archaeology, and the slowly-improving…
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Forest, Flora & Plant Life of the Central Karakoram
The Karakoram is famous for ice and rock. Less famous is what grows in the corners between them. Inside CKNP’s 10,557 km², our biodiversity team has documented more than 700…
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K2 Climbing History — From 1856 to the Commercial Era
The story of climbing in the Central Karakoram is essentially the story of K2. Other peaks in this park have their own histories — the Trango Towers, Broad Peak, the…
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What to Pack for the K2 Base Camp Trek
Every season we get the same questions from people preparing for their first Karakoram trek: what do I bring, what do I leave at home, what can I rent in…
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Conservation in the Karakoram — Ev-K2-CNR, SEED & the Park’s Legacy
The Central Karakoram National Park exists on paper because of a 1993 declaration. It exists in practice because of a thirty-year scientific partnership between Pakistan and Italy, and because of…
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Cultures of the Karakoram — Balti, Burusho & Wakhi
The mountains get the photos, but the cultures of the valleys around CKNP are what most trekkers remember. The buffer zone of the park is home to three distinct ethnic-linguistic…
