Image 1: On the way to the Kargah Buddha, Gilgit On the way to the Kargah Buddha, Gilgit;Image 2: The Buddha carved into the rock at Kargah The Buddha carved into the rock at Kargah;Image 3: The Hunza river between Gilgit and Karimabad The Hunza river between Gilgit and Karimabad;Image 4: The Hunza river between Gilgit and Karimabad The Hunza river between Gilgit and Karimabad;Image 5: Rakaposhi 7,788 m;Image 6: The Old Silk Road The zig-zag line on the mountainside behind the car is the Old Silk Road;Image 7: The Hunza River ;Image 8: Rakaposhi ;Image 9: Rakaposhi ;Image 10: Hunza Valley Looking towards the Altit Fort, up the Hunza River from the Balti Fort, Karimabad;Image 11: Baltit Fort, Karimabad ;Image 12: Karimabad, from the Baltit Fort ;Image 13: Karimabad, from the Baltit Fort Looking down the Hunza river with Rakaposhi in the distance;Image 14: Karimabad, from the Baltit Fort ;Image 15: Behind the Baltit Fort Looking up towards the Ultar Valley;Image 16: The Attabad Lake The southern end of the lake. It was formed by a massive landslide on 04/01/2010 which blocked the valley. The natural dam formed a lake 12 miles long at its peak level and inundated five villages and cut the Karakoram Highway in two. This is the southern embarkation point of the lake. The Chinese are rebuilding the KKH by tunnelling further up the hillside - you can see the start of the tunnel in the rock face on the right.;Image 17: The Attabad Lake All KKH traffic is now interrupted by the lake. Goods have to be loaded/unloaded onto boats, and the boat trip take about an hour. Here you can see the drowned poplars on the lake shore - evidence that the lake was about 20m higher at its peak level.;Image 18: Car ferry on Attabad Lake Mostly goods are transported by boats, but sometimes the boats act as car ferries.;Image 19: The northern end of Attabad Lake ;Image 20: Rashida & Kat ;Image 21: Hunza Valley Above Attabad Lake, showing the area previously drowned by the flood waters which are still covered in silt - the KKH is somewhere under all that silt.;Image 22: Passu Valley Looking down the Passu Valley towards the confluence with the Hunza River;Image 23: Passu glacier foot At the start of our 4 day trek up the Passu glacier and then over to the Batura glacier;Image 24: Passu glacier and roses ;Image 25: Lateral moraine on the Passu glacier ;Image 26: Camp 1 by the Passu glacier This was luxury trekking. No load carrying, 3 course breakfast and evening meal. Three guides, one cook and four porters...;Image 27: Sunset over the Passu glacier ;Image 28: Crossing the Passu glacier Following the route local shepherds use to take their goats and cattle over to high altitude meadows on the other side.;Image 29: Looking up the Passu glacier ;Image 30: Down the Passu glacier ;Image 31: Passu glacier ;Image 32: Passu glacier ;Image 33: Passu glacier ;Image 34: Ancient juniper trees ;Image 35: Passu glacier ;Image 36: Flower One of the few flowers we saw in the mountains - we were too late in season to see all the profusion of alpine flowers that populate the high meadows;Image 37: Passu glacier ;Image 38: The icefall at the head of the Passu glacier ;Image 39: The Passu Cathedral Unclimbed apparently - not worth the effort as it's lower than 6,000m.;Image 40: A sedum plant In the Arctic the locals eat the leaves, the locals here don't do that as they have much more tasty mountain rhubarb to eat.;Image 41: Camp 2 On the ridge between the Passu and Batura glaciers, at about 4,200m.;Image 42: Flower ;Image 43: Sunrise over the Passu glacier head ;Image 44: Our porters, with the Batura glacier stretching into the distance ;Image 45: The Batura glacier At 58km long it's one of the longest glaciers in the world outside the Polar regions. The lower lengths we could see were mainly covered in moraines and debris making it not the most picturesque glacier in the region.;Image 46: The Descent Deserving of a capital letter, we descended about 1500m down a rocky slope to Camp 3. The descent was a killer and took ages - getting soft in my old age...;Image 47: The outwash from the Batura glacier ;Image 48: The Hunza valley opposite from Passu village Note the precarious rope bridge in the bottom right of the picture.;Image 49: The Hunza river by Passu village ;Image 50: The Hunza valley Looking down the valley from Passu village;Image 51: Sunrise over Rakaposhi ;Image 52: Rugs drying in a field By the Eagle's Nest Hotel, Duikar above Karimabad, where we stayed pre and post trek.;Image 53: Trees in Karimabad ;Image 54: The Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Also known as the Royal Mosque, it is the fifth largest mosque in the world and can accommodate 150,000 worshippers.;Image 55: The lantern in the Badshahi Mosque Given to the people of Lahore by Lord Mountbatten a couple of years before Partition.;Image 56: The Badshahi Mosque, Lahore Ornate floors and ceilings in the main prayer hall.;Image 57: The Badshahi Mosque courtyard ;Image 58: Elephant steps in the Lahore fort These steps in the Lahore Fort were low and wide enough to allow elephants to climb them, while transporting royalty into the Fort. Hand-maidens threw rose petals onto the elephants and passengers as they progressed up the steps.;Image 59: The Sheesh Mahal, in the Lahore Fort Urdu for The Palace of Mirrors. Constructed in 1631-32.;Image 60: Marble screen All over the Lahore Fort were these screens made from a single block of carved marble. The holes were wider on the outer faces and tapered inwards towards the middle. This has the effect of increasing the wind flow through the screen - an application of Bernoulli's principle years before it was quantified in 1738.;Image 61: Tomb of Jahangir, Lahore ;Image 62: A ceiling in the Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore ;Image 63: The Wagah Border Between Pakistan and India where they stage an elaborate closing 'lowering of the flags' ceremony every evening, and many visitors from both sides of the border come to cheer on their own side. Michael Palin after watching the ceremony as carefully choreographed contempt.;Image 64: The Badshahi Mosque at night