Nangma Valley Trek
Baltistan's 'Yosemite' — granite walls, three easy days.
Nangma is the short trek Baltistan kept quiet: from Kanday village (2.5 h from Khaplu) a single day's walk enters a cirque of Yosemite-scale granite — Amin Brakk's 1,000 m wall among them — with meadow camps, mule support and no glacier travel. Three to four days, May to October, ideal as a first Karakoram trek.
Big-wall climbers found Nangma decades ago; trekkers are only now catching on. The approach is a garden — willow channels, barley terraces — and then the walls arrive all at once, vertical enough to make your neck file a complaint.
As a fitness-test before K2 BC, or the centrepiece of a gentler Baltistan fortnight, it has no equal for effort-to-spectacle ratio.
Questions, answered
Is Nangma Valley suitable for first-time trekkers?
Yes — mule-supported loads, sane altitudes and short stages make it the region's best introduction. Reasonable day-hike fitness is enough; children from 12 manage it happily.
Run it with the home team.
Private departures with our Hushe and Askole crews — permits, mules and every logistics line handled.