Black Glacier Gojal (upper Hunza)

Introduction:

Black Glacier, covered in gravel and rocks, comes right down to the road about one kilometer past Gulmit. The road across the snout of the glacier at the very edge of the river then climbs up onto the lateral moraine, a great grey slagheap. From Ghulkin village a footpath a crosses the Black glacier to Borith Lake, two hours away. Its 1.25 kilometers across the Black Glacier, the way marked by a cairn on the south moraine and a big cleft or dip in the north moraine.