Picture from Hunza Valley.. Pakistan
http://www.homevideos.com/yoga/tough2.jpeg
I thought this deserved a thread..:D

Originally posted by ehsankiani

I thought this deserved a thread..:D

Pretty cool, but would have been better if he would have driven through the River :D

TEX

Here ya go...
http://www.it-warehouse.com/mountainmovers/images/Jsafar3.jpg :D

That's more like it!

TEX

Looks like a long way down to the water!:eek:

-Jeremy

I think that's one ride I'll have to pass on :eek:

Originally posted by ehsankiani
http://www.homevideos.com/yoga/tough2.jpeg That would make for one hellofa Missoura boat ride!

Man, you guys really have some killer terrain over there.

That's pretty serious stuff.

Cool pics

The picture was taken in Hunza. One of the bridges broke down and they had to buld something like what you see in the pic.. I think they have rebuilt the bridge now.. I wonder how the large trucks went across...:D

Originally posted by Belly Dragger
That would make for one hellofa Missoura boat ride!

Nice Outlaw Josie Wales reference :D

TEX

http://www.angelfire.com/va/ourhomepage/images/171.jpg

How intense is the hunt for Osama in Pakistan right now.

Are there roving packs of vigianles looking to cash in on the bounty for his head??????

If we could get a POR posse together and get our visas in order, lookout!!!!!!:usa: :usa: :usa:

Do you see a man walking across the river on the smaller suspension bridge on the left of the old one?:eek:
http://www.destoop.com/trip/3%20DAYBYDAY/010605%20Sost-Kathmandu/1%20Sost-Lahore/Passu08.jpg

Are there roving packs of vigianles looking to cash in on the bounty for his head??????
I dont know if ppl are bunty-hunting for Osmama but I doubt it.. I know that the Border Patrol and the Army and Police of Pakistan are keeping there ears and eyes wide open for the guy.. I thint this topic demands a separate thread....

Definately a different thread, however I was pushing really hard to get the 500th post!!!

Sorry to get off topic:D

The terrain I have seen on news reports as well as the pictures posted here really taxes the drivetrains of all vehicles doesn't it?

Originally posted by rugburn

The terrain I have seen on news reports as well as the pictures posted here really taxes the drivetrains of all vehicles doesn't it?
Yes it sure does but with virtually all 4x4s having deisel engines, they have lots of low-end torque to help them out..

Another view..
http://admiralty.pacific.net.hk/~steveb/bridges.jpg

Kalam.. Swat Valley. NWFP, Pakistan
http://www.pakistanpage.net/gallery/main/valleys/kalam1.jpg

Swat again....
http://www.pakistanpage.net/gallery/main/valleys/swat6.jpg

Well???:rolleyes:
http://www.cybercity-online.net/Pakistan/NortherPak/images/gilgit.jpg

540 veiws and just 8 replies from you ppl... Come on.. You could do better than that...:roxy:
http://www.cse.bris.ac.uk/~cckhrb/pak/p_bridg.jpg

Damn... Wheelin everywhere you look. Thats pretty cool.

Originally posted by ehsankiani
Swat again....
http://www.pakistanpage.net/gallery/main/valleys/swat6.jpg

Hey you Southwest guys, check out the boulders here. ARCA's Pakistani leg? :D:D


TEX

That is some cool looking Shiat!

IF I was not a 6'4" blond haired, Blue Eyed. American I might consider a vacation there. But as it stands now the only way I am going over there is with my LRSD buddies and a shitload of fire support!

This one is from the Deosai Plains.. It is also called the Roof of the world being one of the highest plateus in the world...
http://fred.ferchaux.free.fr/images/deosai.jpg

Chaprot.. Gilgit.. Pakistan
http://geography.ou.edu/dynamic-mirror/The_Great_Mirror/Pakistan/Chaprot/1/m.jpg

Gilgit Pakistan
http://www.ruta-imperios.com/images/cronicas/Cronica53/Pk-515retcal5.jpg

that is some very pretty country to bad it is soo damn far away. :jeep3:

Yeah that's some pretty sweet shiat. I remember seeing some footage during the HEIGHT of the Sept-11 attacks, that showed some 4x4's "wheelin" (just every-day driving for them it looked like) in the mountains in the area. It looked pretty sweet.

Thanks for the pics, it really shows a nicer (natural outdoors) image of the area.
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No way in hell would i go over any of those. :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

How often do those ledge roads give way? :nuke:
Looks like a hell of a fall.
Nice country.

Originally posted by VeloCJ
How often do those ledge roads give way? :nuke:
Looks like a hell of a fall.
Nice country.

Well accidents do happen.. they are more common in the nothern areas.. Mostly we hear of some Jeep or rarely a whole bus skidding off the road into a ravine with many casualties.. These brisges are quite old,most of them.. Some are more than 50 years old...

http://www.cybercity-online.net/Pakistan/NortherPak/images/naltar.jpg

Cool pics Ehsan! :cool2:

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~src048/images/safari.jpg

At the roof od the World.. Deosai Plains... Check the colour of the water...:emb:
http://www.heritage.gov.pk/View-JPG%20pics/7.Deosai%20SKZ.GIF

The last one is my favorite!

http://www.travelandleisure.com/ext/prizes/images/bridge.jpg
Taken from here. (www.travelandleisure.com/ ext/prizes/04photo.html)

Originally posted by ehsankiani
http://www.travelandleisure.com/ext/prizes/images/bridge.jpg
Taken from here. (www.travelandleisure.com/ ext/prizes/04photo.html)

That guy is carrying a COW on his back over that sketchy bridge!

Check out the link (corrected):

www.travelandleisure.com/ext/prizes/04photo.html


AWESOME PICTURES!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Bridge crossing at Yarhun river.. Chitral Pakistan
http://www.rgs.org/sections/ar/images/mo1.jpg

Wire crossing of Shimshal River.. Pakistan
http://www.rgs.org/sections/ar/images/mo7.jpg

Taken from Here (http://www.mikemeaney.com/photodir/bigpakistan.html)
http://mikemeaney.future.easyspace.com/ao26l.jpg

From Here (http://www.bot.sbg.ac.at/pakistan/slideshow/impression2/imp203.asp)
http://www.bot.sbg.ac.at/pakistan/slideshow/impression2/A.Millinger_twigbridge.jpg
http://www.bot.sbg.ac.at/pakistan/slideshow/impression2/A.Millinger_basket_woodl.jpg
Deosai Plain

http://www.bot.sbg.ac.at/pakistan/slideshow/impression2/A.Millinger_deosai1.jpg

http://www.totemtabu.it/PAKISTAN.jpg

OMG that last one is just crazy..

Great pics (as usual)!

Thanks for posting.

Originally posted by YoungDogs
Great pics (as usual)!

Thanks for posting.
Thanks .. More to come as soon as I can find a few...:p

Kohistan.. North Pakistan
http://www.mango.itgo.com/kkh/kkh%20chilas%20bridge%20river%20kohistan.jpg[IMG]

how about his one :flipoff2:

:eek:

That is COOL !! :)

That is a beautiful place. Dodgy in places me thinks...... but cool.
I wonder if i could hire a For Dee and get it AWNN!! :flipoff2:

Pretty heavy pics.

Good ones

http://www.hunzadarbar.com.pk/kkh.jpg

http://danny.oz.au/travel/1999/pakistan/p/p/437-horses-river.jpg

http://www.desafio8000.com/img/all/d8000/f45.jpg

Skardu.. Morth Pakistan
http://www.cruzers.com/~twakeman/LR/LR.images/Reader_Casolari.jpg
Source (http://www.cruzers.com/~twakeman/LR/G_Readers_Rigs.htm)

Pretty incredible, truly the Top of the World. One of these years I'm coming to visit. In either my diesel F350 expedition truck or a diesel Land Cruiser.
Charlie

non of them are as scary as this one

http://www.toshikobo.com/jstst/lions/lgb202a.jpg

Wow! Some awsome pictures there...beautiful lookin country!
Those bridge pictures are really something...

Luke

Old Galloping Gertie in Tacoma... 90 degress of twist baby!!! :eek:

http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/research/nonlinear/tacoma/tac07.gif

This is absolutely wonderful country. I really look forward to your posts and share them with friends. Please keep 'em coming! Someday, it would be wonderful country to visit, once our governments settle down.

Pakistan -Fairy Meadows - Nanga Parbat:
http://community.webshots.com/rz/r1/8/62/50/6086250IWuDDbdglC_ph.jpg
http://community.webshots.com/rz/r1/7/23/8/6072308qqjOfAakmq_ph.jpg
Source (http://community.webshots.com/album/6070863adOybTiUMw)

Thanks for sharing, it lends a completely different perspective. What are the common rigs over there?

Regards

you guys have some crazy bridge action going on over there. to me it looks crazy. is that kinda stuff comon place? crazy i tell ya.

that bike rider on the bridge is crazy!!! I wanna try it :D


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Love to wheel in Pakistan... It looks awesome.. I would love to drive the bridges, toooo bad since I won't even consider going since some whacko might try and cut my freaking head off just becuase I would be porfiled as an Anglo christian . ... How do you expalin that you are white anglo Redneck budist?
Stero types what a crock.

Originally posted by camo
you guys have some crazy bridge action going on over there. to me it looks crazy. is that kinda stuff comon place? crazy i tell ya.

This is common in the nothern remote areas which are not well developed...Just to give you a wider perspective.. the following picture are from Islamabad
http://www.karavankarachi.com/Islamabad.gif
I am going to Nathiagali just now.. Thats a mountain resort 3 hours drive from here.. I will post some more pics when I come back from there tommorow..

Korakoram,Pakistan
http://www.globalcommunityx.com/asia/pakistan/karakoram2001/askole/bridge2.jpg

I propose us Pirate 4x4 folk starts saving out money and when the time is right... im guesssing a year or two we do a good will tour of Pakistan wheeling areas. We can coordinate with relief agencys to deliver relief goods to remote area's as well.

I heard once it was around 600 buks to put a jeep in a shipping container and send it to Australia... wonder what it would be to Pakistan. We would need fuel trailers full of regular petrole to haul with us. A few armed gaurds too maybe.

What do yall think?..... Its just crazy enough of an idea that the only folk nuts enough to do it are Pirate 4x4 people, but thats great cause we are the REAL WORLD people that truely represent America.


hmmmmmmmm

Originally posted by ehsankiani
Korakoram,Pakistan
http://www.globalcommunityx.com/asia/pakistan/karakoram2001/askole/bridge2.jpg

is it just me or do you guys see some kind of figure in that pic that takes up the wole pic

maybe i'm seeing stuf :confused: oh man ma eye

Great idea, coachgeo, I think folks in a lot of countries would think differently about america if they could meet more real americans.

Originally posted by Chief Yelling Alot


is it just me or do you guys see some kind of figure in that pic that takes up the wole pic

maybe i'm seeing stuf :confused: oh man ma eye

Yeah I see it too.... like three smoke stacks..

HEY.... is someone using Pirate 4x4 to pass on classified intelegence photographs..... hmmmmmmm?

Originally posted by coachgeo
I propose us Pirate 4x4 folk starts saving out money and when the time is right... im guesssing a year or two we do a good will tour of Pakistan wheeling areas. We can coordinate with relief agencys to deliver relief goods to remote area's as well.


That sounds like a pretty nice idea Coachgeo.. All of you are most welcome here in Pakistan.. The idea about doing some releif work is also very nice.. I have been involved with an NGO which holds free medial and blood camps in the far flung areas.. I know they would love to join in..:D

Hunza..
http://www.mango.itgo.com/hunza/altit%20road%20hunza%20aspen.jpg

Here is an veiw of the Himalayas from high up.. http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~rchary/ip/himalayas.jpg

http://admiralty.pacific.net.hk/~steveb/bridges.jpg

http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/99/karakoram/graphics/rivercrossing.jpg