Motorway Between the Higher Mountains: Deep Valleys Below and the Road Towards Islamabad
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...
