Snow Lake, Pakistan

The Lukpe Lawo or Snow Lake ( Schneesee ) is part of a high-altitude glacial basin in the Karakoram in Gilgit -Baltistan, the former Northern Areas of Pakistan.

Geography

The Snow Lake is situated at about 4500m above sea level and is about 16 km long. Together with the similarly long- Sim -speed glacier, it forms the Nährregion of Biafo glacier. While Eric Shipton differed on the incurred after his expedition to the area map between Snow Lake in the north and Sim -speed glaciers in the east, designate other authors with Snow Lake the entire Basin of Sim Gear Glacier and Lupke Lawo ( the actual Snow Lake ).

Lukpe Lawo and Sim crossing glaciers cover a total area of about 300 km2.

On the west side of the glacier basin is the Hispar Pass, which connects the Biafo with the Hispar Glacier. The two glaciers extend from Hispar pass in different directions and, together with a length of 100 km one of the largest glacier traverses the Earth outside the polar regions. More saddle in the framing mountain ranges are the Khurdopin pass, with the Khurdopin glacier connects the Lukpe Lawo the north and the Virjerab Pass, which allows a transition to Virjerab Glacier. Virjerab and Khurdopin Glacier flowing north to the Shimshal Valley. The pass Lukpe -La is not on Lukpe Lawo, but the Sim -speed glaciers and connects it to the north with the Braldu glacier. The Sim -La connects the Sim -speed glacier with the Choktoi Glacier, Skam -La with the Nobande - Sobande Glacier. Choktoi and Nobande - Sobande glacier flowing both towards the southeast and unite to form the Panmah Glacier.

First explorers

The members, headed by William Martin Conway Karakorumexpedition were the first foreigners at the Snow Lake in 1892. Conway, a British politician and mountaineer, gave him his name and described the Snow Lake as "beyond all comparison the finest view of mountains It has ever been my lot to behold, nor do I believe the world can hold a finer. "the Snow Lake is difficult to achieve and only 200 people a year come to this place. In 1908 he received the couple William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman and she speculated, as they calculated the size of the glacier with 700 km ² wrong, whether the Snow Lake is so powerful as the icecaps of the polar regions, of which the glacier in all flow directions. This assumption was corrected by the British Himalayas researchers Eric Shipton to 45 km ² in 1939 In the 1940s, was the Snow Lake in Lukpe Lawo, a translation into the language of the Balti renamed.