On the track leading to the mountaintop mosque © Gohar Balti
On the track leading to the mountaintop mosque © Gohar Balti

A trekker pausing at a resting place on the journey up to Thoqsi Khar Khankah Mualla, a mosque at an incredible altitude of 9000 feet.
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