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Mushkpuri  is the second highest hill of Galyat. It is located in the Hills of Nathiagali in District Abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. There is a three hour long but safe hill trek to the top. It is approximately 9452 feet (2,800 meters) above sea level. Trek to Mushkpuri top starts from Nathiagali spiraling upward through green pine forests. It is a 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) of climb. The way to the top is very breathtaking. It is full of greenery and is rich with fragmented flowers, like a carpet full of flowers. Especially at the end of the rainy season it gives a very attractive view to the hikers. There is another trek to Mushkpuri which starts from Dungagali. The slope on this route is steeper than the trek coming from Nathiagali. From the trek Mushkpuri to Dungagali down below there is a great sight of Ayubia National Park. There is a water pond at the Mushkpuri top which gives beautiful reflection of trees and the sky. From Mushkpuri top Kashmir valley can als...

Gasherbrum II also known as K4, the 13th highest mountain in the world at 8,035 metres (26,362 ft) It is the third-highest peak of the Gashebrum masif , and is located in the Karakoram , on the border between G B  province, P akistan , and   China   The mountain was first climbed on July 7, 1956, by an  Austrian  expedition which included  Fritz Moravec , Josef Larch, and Hans Willenpart. Gasherbrum means a shining wall. There are six Gasherbrum peaks in the Karakorum Range. It was captain Young husband and his party, which in 1889 discovered Gasherbrum glacier. In 1956, members of an Austrian Karakorum expedition climbed Gasherbrum-II (8035m/26,361ft). The party was led by Fritz Moravec. It set up a base camp on the south Gasherbrum glacier. Camp-1 was set up at 6,005m/19,700ft. It was here that the party was forced to stay for ten days because of a severe storm. Consequently it lost a large supply store in an avalanche. After set...

‘Fun on the Farm’ in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Save Photo A Kiko-pygmy mix, left, and an Alpine are among the goats that have just arrived in Prospect Park. Credit Paul Martinka ‘Fun on the Farm’ Prospect Park in Brooklyn has just acquired some extraordinary weed-killing machines. They’re energy-efficient, quiet and ecologically sound (no harmful chemicals). Some might even call them cute. You can judge for yourself on Sunday at “ Fun on the Farm ,” where they will be up and running: eight goats of different breeds, including the pygmy, Alpine, Oberhasli and LaMancha. “They will eat  anything ,” said Sue Donoghue, president of the  Prospect Park Alliance . “They’ll eat poison ivy, any kind of plant and weeds, and keep eating it. We have English ivy and goutweed here. They’ll eat all of it.” And when a weed is gnawed incessantly, she added, “it won’t continue to grow.” The alliance obtained the goats through a grant from the National Park Service, in...

RAKAPOSHI                                          View of Rakaposhi (7788 m) from Katcheli Lake.

‪‎LinkSar‬ is a 7,041m unclimbed peak in rarely visited  513 SHARES 493 0 19 Link Sar (7,041 meters/23,100 feet) is an unclimbed peak in the Charakusa Valley of the Karakoram mountains. Difficult to approach—or even to see possible routes in full—the peak has seen few attempts. The two men climbed the northwest face of the peak, roughly the same route followed by Griffith and American climber Kevin Mahoney last summer. However, as Griffith explained, "we topped out in a different location. Kevin and I topped out to a really horrible ridge last year, which is only something you could find out by actually being on the route. So [Andy and I] topped out further up and left on the face. We still had a short, awkward ridge section, but nothing like what me and Kevin encountered last year.” Griffith and Mahoney had climbed through several days of storm during their 2014 attempt, which Griffith described as "one of the toughest mental a...