Geographical Climate of Gilgit-Baltistan

 Geographical Climate of Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit–Baltistan borders Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province to the west, a small portion of the Wakhan corridor of Afghanistan to the north, China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to the northeast, the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir to the southeast, and the Pakistani-administered state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to the south.

Gilgit–baltistan is home to five of the "eight-thousandths" and to more than fifty crests over 7,000 meters. Gilgit and Skardu are the two principle centers for campaigns to those mountains. The area is home to a percentage of the world's most elevated mountain ranges. The primary extents are the Karakoram and the western Himalayas. The Pamir mountains are to the north, and the Hindu Kush misleads the west.[29] Amongst the most astounding mountains are K2 (Mount Godwin-Austen) and Nanga Parbat, the last being a standout amongst the most dreaded mountains on the planet. 
Three of the world's longest ice sheets outside the polar areas are found in Gilgit–baltistan: the Biafo Glacier, the Baltoro Glacier, and the Batura Glacier. There are, also, a few high-elevation lakes in Gilgit–baltistan.

Sheosar Lake in the Deosai Plains, Astore 

Satpara Tso Lake in Skardu, Baltistan 

Katzura Tso Lake in Skardu, Baltistan 

Zharba Tso Lake in Shigar, Baltistan 

Phoroq Tso Lake in Skardu, Baltistan 

Lake Kharfak in Gangche, Baltistan 

Byarsa Tso Lake in Gultari, Astore 

Borith Lake in Gojal, upper Hunza, Gilgit 

Lake of kromber lake in Ghizar Ishkomen

Lake of Phander in Ghizar Gupis

Lake of khalti in Ghizar Gupis 

Rama Lake close Astore 

Surge Lake close Nagar, Gilgit 

Kromber Lake at Kromber Pass Ishkoman Valley, Ghizer District 

Barodaroksh lake in Bar Valley, Nagar 

Ghorashi lake in Ghandus Valley, Kharmang 

The Deosai Plains, are spotted over the tree line and constitute the second-most astounding level on the planet at 4,115 meters (14,500 feet)after Tibet. The level lies east of Astore, south of Skardu and west of Ladakh. The region was proclaimed as a national stop in 1993. The Deosai Plains blanket a territory of just about 5,000 square kilometers. For over a large portion of the year (between September and May), Deosai is snow-bound and cut off from rest of Astore and Baltistan in winters. The town of Deosai lies near Chilum chokki and is associated with the Kargil locale of Ladakh through an all-climate way. 

There are more than 50,000 bits of rock craft (petroglyphs) and engravings up and down the Karakoram Highway in Gilgit–baltistan, aggregated at ten significant destinations between Hunza and Shatial. The carvings were left by different intruders, dealers, and pioneers who passed along the exchange course, and also by locals. The soonest go once again to between 5000 and 1000 BCE, demonstrating single creatures

 triangular men and chasing scenes in which the creatures are bigger than the seekers. These carvings were pecked into the rock with stone devices and are secured with a thick patina that demonstrates their age. The ethnologist Karl Jettmar has sorted out the historical backdrop of the range from different engravings and recorded his discoveries in Rock Carvings and Inscriptions in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and the later discharged Between Gandhara and the Silk Roads – Rock Carvings Along the Karakoram Highway.[31] Many of these carvings and engravings will be immersed and/or annihilated when the arranged Basha-Diamir dam is fabricated and the Karakoram Highway.

Climate

The atmosphere of Gilgit–baltistan changes from locale to district, encompassing mountain reaches makes sharp varieties in climate. The eastern part has the sodden zone of the western Himalayas, however going to Karakoram and Hindu Kush, the atmosphere dries considerably.

There are towns like Gilgit and Chilas that are extremely hot throughout the day in summer yet cool around evening time and valleys like Astore, Khaplu, Yasin, Hunza, and Nagar, Ghizar where the temperatures are chilly even in summer.