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Rahim Yar Khan → Islamabad · 19 October 2026 · 6:09 AM Motorway Between the Higher Mountains: Deep Valleys Below and the Road Towards Islamabad The mountains are higher now, and the motorway runs between them — with deep valleys dropping away below the road. One minute. That is all that separated the two views. At 6:08 in the morning the motorway had folded itself into a zigzag and begun to climb, curve after curve, higher and higher above sea level. At 6:09, the climb showed us its other face. The mountains on either side had grown taller — not the low, mist-wrapped ridges of the first sighting, but great, steep, silent slopes rising on both sides of the road — and between them, far below the carriageway, the land fell away into deep valleys , mist sitting in them like slow rivers of light. After crossing the plains all night from Rahim Yar Khan, travelling between these great silent mountains towards Islamabad is a feeling that words can hardly hold. This video — sixty-on...

Rahim Yar Khan → Islamabad · 19 October 2026 · 6:08 AM Zigzag Motorway Between the Mountains: Climbing Higher and Higher Above Sea Level Towards Islamabad The flat road of the night is behind us. Ahead, the motorway folds itself into curve after curve, climbing between the mountains towards the capital. One minute. That is all that separated the two views. At 6:07 in the morning the mountains were all around us and the sky was opening above them, and the tiredness of a whole night on the road from Rahim Yar Khan had disappeared in a single moment. At 6:08, the road itself answered that view. It stopped running straight across the land, turned into the hills, and began to climb — folding itself into a zigzag of curve after curve, rising higher and higher above sea level with every bend, while the plains we had crossed all night fell away below us. After hours of flat, dark motorway, the journey had finally become a mountain journey, and this video ...

Rahim Yar Khan → Islamabad · 19 October 2026 · 6:07 AM Mountains All Around and the Sky Opening Above: The Feeling of Reaching Islamabad After the Long Night Journey Mountains on every side, the morning sky opening above them, and the tiredness of a whole night on the road disappearing in a single view. There is a moment on every long night journey when the journey stops being something you are enduring and starts being something you are feeling — and on our road from Rahim Yar Khan to Islamabad, that moment arrived at 6:07 in the morning on 19 October 2026. The mountains were suddenly all around us, on every side of the motorway, and above them the morning sky was opening wide, gold and pale blue, as if the whole world had decided to lift its roof at once. After a whole night on the road, this was the moment the tiredness disappeared. Islamabad was near now, and its hills were standing there to welcome us. Some arrivals you feel in your heart before ...

Rahim Yar Khan → Islamabad · 19 October 2026 · 6:06 AM The Mountains Grow Closer: Morning Mist on the Hills on the Way to Islamabad from Rahim Yar Khan Layer upon layer of mist-wrapped ridges, green fields rushing past the window, and the feeling that the whole night of driving was worth it for this one view. Two minutes. That is all that separates yesterday’s first sight of the mountains from this photograph — two minutes on the clock, and a whole world of difference on the road. At 6:04 in the morning the hills appeared on the horizon like a rumour, pale and far away. By 6:06 they had grown closer, clearer and greener, layer upon layer of them wrapped in morning mist, and the journey from Rahim Yar Khan to Islamabad had entered its most beautiful part. This is the photograph of that moment: the mountains growing closer, the mist still hanging in the valleys, and the green fields of the Punjab rushing past the window in the foreground. Layer up...