Zigzag Motorway Between the Mountains: Climbing Higher and Higher Above Sea Level Towards Islamabad
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 ...