Ski Pakistan

Pakistan has great potential for its ski industry with a large amount of mountainous terrain stretching up to the Himalayas, and also a strong military heritage of ski competition but the country’s ski area development has been held back by economic and political issues. These include border conflicts with India in Kashmir and fighting around the Gulmarg ski area there that was at its low point in the 1990s, but more recently in Pakistan’s own North West Territories the Taliban destroyed the country’s one commercial resort during their occupation of the beautiful SWAT Valley up to 2009. This was one of the less significant atrocities during their occupation of the region.

The centre had been created in the early 1960s with chairlifts between around 2900 and 3100m above sea level in the Himalayas and a hotel installed in the late 1980s, a gift from Austria.

The Pakistan government now has plans to rebuild the centre.

There are other small ski centres in Pakistan but they are mostly at military bases including Nalter and Kalabagh run by the country’s army and airforce. These stage competitions each winter for military personnel and are hotly contended.

Pakistan is also of note in world skiing terms as it is the favoured access route to K2 and the country’s other four ‘8000ers’ for extreme ski mountaineers attempting to climb and ski down the world’s highest peaks. K2 is considered the most dangerous and has seen several deaths of extreme skiers attempting to conquer it including the ill fated expeditions of Fredrik Ericsson in 2009 and 2010.
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Pakistan: latest snow conditions round-up

Summary of forecast snowfall and ski conditions for resorts in Pakistan. Fresh snow is forecast at 5 resorts. Powder is reported at 0 resorts and 0 are reporting good piste conditions.

All resorts

Ski resorts of Pakistan, alphabetically

Resort
snow depth
top and bottom

on-piste

off-piste

Last Snow

Next 9 Days
0–3 | 3–6 | 6–9
snow (cm)
Next 5 days weather forecast.
Freezing level (m)
Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue

(4899m — 8046m)

snow report 17 days ago

1.0 cm
13 days ago
9.0
25.0
clear clear clear part cloud light snow
Mid station 6472 m
5150m 5400m 5550m 5600m 5500m

(5925m — 8080m)

snow report 17 days ago

2.0 cm
17 days ago
10.0
16.0
clear part cloud clear part cloud light snow
Mid station 7002 m
5100m 5300m 5400m 5400m 5400m
K2

(5029m — 8611m)

1.0 cm
13 days ago
5.0
21.0
clear clear part cloud cloud light snow
Mid station 6820 m
5250m 5450m 5600m 5650m 5500m

(2452m — 2652m)

2.0 cm
on 14 Mar
thunderstorm thunderstorm thunderstorm mod rain thunderstorm
Mid station 2552 m
5700m 5700m 5600m 5500m 5350m

(2870m — 2950m)

1.0 cm
75 days ago
clear clear thunderstorm part cloud thunderstorm
Mid station 2910 m
5950m 6050m 5950m 5850m 5700m