Sarwali Peak, also known as Dabbar Peak, Toshe Ri, and Toshain-I, is a mountain peak located at an altitude of in
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (; ), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee:
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Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
. It is located at the junction of the
Neelam and Shounter valleys
on Toshain/Rupal Glacier towering in
Rupal Valley
The Rupal Valley () is a valley located in the Astore District of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It is on the southern side of Nanga Parbat, and is accessed via the Astore Valley, which leaves the Karakoram Highway at Juglot, some south of Gilgit ...
of
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat ( ur, ) (; ), known locally as Diamer () which means “king of the mountains”, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth, its summit at above sea level. Lying immediately southeast of the northernmost bend of the Indus River in ...
. It is the highest point in the state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
The Kashmir Tourism Department sent an expedition in 2004 (details not available), but there has been no documented successful ascent of the peak.
The ridge line that forms Toshain walls houses Toshain II, Toshain III, Toshain IV and Toshain V (Shounter Peak), which all are technical in nature and heavily glaciated. Three
Islamabad
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital T ...
-based climbers named Imran Juanidi, Usman Tariq and Khurram Rajput tried to reach the summit but went missing on 31 August 2015 and, despite search and rescue effort, could not be found.
On 29 June 2019, Simon Messner soloed the summit of Toshe III, locally known as Geshot.
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Mountains of Azad Kashmir
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