{"id":2463,"date":"2008-09-23T15:14:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T10:14:53","slug":"the-beauty-of-batura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2008\/09\/23\/the-beauty-of-batura\/","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of Batura"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/b4.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2464 aligncenter\" title=\"b4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/b4.jpg?resize=455%2C341\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"341\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Batura Glacier<\/strong>\u00a0(57km long) is one of the largest and longest glaciers outside the polar regions.<sup class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batura_Glacier#cite_note-Measurements-0\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0It lies in the\u00a0<a title=\"Gojal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gojal\">Gojal<\/a>\u00a0region of the\u00a0<a title=\"Northern Areas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northern_Areas\">Northern Areas<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Pakistan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pakistan\">Pakistan<\/a>, just north of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Batura\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batura\">Batura<\/a>\u00a0(7,795 m) and\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Passu Peak\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passu_Peak\">Passu<\/a>\u00a0(7,500 m) massifs. It flows west to east. The lower portions can be described as a grey sea of rocks and gravelly moraine, bordered by a few summer villages and pastures with herds of sheep, goats, cows and yaks and where roses and juniper trees are common. [Wikipedia]\n\n<p>Photo: <strong>Zulfiqar Ali Khan<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batura Glacier\u00a0(57km long) is one of the largest and longest glaciers outside the polar regions.[1]\u00a0It lies in the\u00a0Gojal\u00a0region of the\u00a0Northern Areas\u00a0of\u00a0Pakistan, just north of\u00a0Batura\u00a0(7,795 m) and\u00a0Passu\u00a0(7,500 m) massifs. It flows west to east. The lower portions can be described as a grey sea of rocks and gravelly moraine, bordered by a few summer villages and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,3],"tags":[111,4781,10,6,4772,21],"class_list":["post-2463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","category-pakistan","tag-batura","tag-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gojal","tag-hunza","tag-pakistan","tag-passu"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}