Darkot-Pass

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The Darkot Pass ( also Darkut ) is a 4650 m high mountain pass in the Hinduraj in northern Pakistan, which is only accessible from May to October. It connects the Yarkhun valley in Chitral district in North West Frontier Province on the north side with the Ghizer Valley in Ghizer district of Gilgit- Baltistan special territory, the former Northern areas of Pakistan to the south.

The glaciated Pass is located about 18 kilometers east of the 6872 m high mountain Koyo Zom (Go ), the highest mountain in Ghizer district. 15 kilometers from the pass is in the south of the village Darkot. The southern side is drained by the Darkot River, which flows later in the Ghizer River. This river flows soon as Gilgit eastwards and flows east of the city of Gilgit in the Indus.

The Yarkhun River on the north side of the pass flows to the west. He opens via Mastuj and Kunar to the southwest in the Kabul River in Afghanistan, which eventually flows back to the southeast to the Indus. On the north side of the Yarkhun Valley, about 20 kilometers from the Darkot Pass, lies the Broghol - pass linking Pakistan's North West Frontier Province to the northern Afghan Wakhan Corridor.