ISLAMABAD – One of the highest lake of the World has been discovered inPakistan.
Christened Paristan Lake by its explorers, the water body is reported tohave been discovered in the Karakorams. The altitude of the lake is 15,641feet above sea level.
This makes it the highest lake in Pakistan and the 25th highest in theworld.
Talking to the media at the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday afternoon, OmarAhsan, head of the Karachi-based Survival International, who said he was anephew of the 1965 war hero Squadron Leader MM Alam, described how hetravelled from Karachi to Rawalpindi by road on September 5.
From Rawalpindi he left for Siachen, where he organised a team comprisingporters and mountaineers from the area at Ghanche. He said he covered adistance of 7,000 kilometres in 10 days.
Ahsan said they had to go through really tortuous terrain and all of themsuffered minor injuries, but they persevered and 18 miles west of Siachenthey discovered this lake. He said the team did not have any tacticalsupport, but the Pakistan Army’s SSG School in Peshawar was kind enough toprovide them with all the modern instruments such as a GPS device.
Ahsan said that when they consulted the GPS device at the site of the lake,it turned out that they were poised at an altitude of 15,641 feet, or 4,813metres, which makes Paristan Lake the highest alpine lake in the countryand the 25th highest in the world.