Baltistan, or LITTLE TIBET, is an alpine region through which the Upper Indus flows. It lies below the Kara-Korum Mountains and the Himalayas, with a mean elevation of 11,000 feet, and contains the nameless peak marked K2, 28,278 feet high, next to Everest, the highest on the globe.
It is politically a part of Kashmir, and the inhabitants are of Mongolian stock.