Jaglot View Point

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Gasho Pahote village is a host village for "View Point" landmark, a junction point of three mountain ranges, the Karakoram, Himalayas and Hindu Kush. A nearly 15 feet higher surface platform made of mountain rocks makes a perfect view-point as center point of these world three tallest ranges of mountains. Standing on platform facing Hindu Kush, left hand side is Himalayas, on right hand side is the Karakoram. View Point was also featured in BBC Saira Khan's Pakistan Adventure documentary.

Gasho Pahote is one of the fifteen villages of Jaglot Town; however it is considered as a part of Jaglot due to its adjacent location. Jaglot is in Gilgit District Pakistan, situated 45km south of Gilgit on the Karakoram Highway (KKH). Jaglot is a fertile valley with rich natural resources and is one of the business hubs of the Gilgit-Baltistan (formely Northern Areas) due to the fact that all six districts have access through Jaglot. The town is also contains the largest oil, wheat and flour depots for the Gilgit-Baltistan. The population of Jaglot, including the suburbs, is approximately 27,000 comprising of three thousand houses and an education ratio of 33%.

K2

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K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth (after Mount Everest) With a peak elevation of 8,611 metres (28,251 ft). K2 is part of the Karakoram range located on the border between Gilgit, in Gilgit-Baltistan of Pakistan and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China. K2 is just 237 m (778 ft) smaller than the 8,848 m (29,029 ft) tall Mount Everest.

K2 is known as the Savage Mountain due to the difficulty of ascent and the 2nd highest fatality rate among the 'eight thousanders' for those who climb it. For every four people who have reached the summit, one has died trying. Unlike Annapurna, the mountain with the highest fatality rate, K2 has never been climbed in winter.

All major climbing routes lie on the Pakistani side, which is also where the base camp "Abruzzi Spur" is located. Base camp Abruzzi Spur was named after first attempted by Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi in 1909.

There are a number of routes on K2, of somewhat different character, but they all share some key difficulties of extreme high altitude, lack of oxygen, extreme storms of several days, the steep, exposed, and committing nature of all routes on the mountain.

Three hollywood movies have featured K2.

Vertical Limit, 2000

K2, 1992

Karakoram & Himalayas, 2007