A view of the Passu Glacier, situated below the approximately 7,500-meter-high Passu Peak within the Karakoram Range, offers stunning white landscapes to climbers and hikers in Baltistan, Pakistan on August 15, 2024. In Pakistan, home to many glaciers, nearly all of the more than 7,000 glaciers located in the mountainous regions are found in the high-altitude Gilgit-Baltistan region, which includes Skardu, and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. (Photo by Nurettin Boydak/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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