Shimshal Valley

•Shemshal [ old name: Shngshal" ] is the •village" in Gojal Tehsil of Hunza District in the •Gilgit-Baltistan part of Pakistan, known as Northern Areas of Pakistan, It is at an altitude of 3 thousand one hundred *meters above sea level and is the highest settlement in the district.  It is a tributary of the Hunza River in the Shamshal Valley.  Shamshal is a border village that connects the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan with China.  The total area of   Shamshal is about 3, 3,800 km2 and there are about 200 inhabitants with a total of 250 households.

 The village of Shamshal was founded about 570 years ago (in 1450) by Mamo Singh, the brother of Cho Singh, both speakers of Burshaski and belonging to the Brong family.

•Shamshal is made up of four major cities.  Farmanabad, Aminabad, Center Shamshal and Khaizabad.  Farmanabad is a new settlement that comes first when Shamshal arrives.  Aminabad has been declared in vast rocky plains with dry stone walls, and fortified houses like stone and mud• As you approach Shamshal, find a glimpse of the Overhead {6,303 m} also known as Shamshal White Horn.  Shamshal has five months of overstream hydropower from June to October (when the water does not freeze).  The seven-month power outage is a major problem for the local community as they have had to rely on kerosene, wood, solar panels and compressed natural gas in cylinders as alternatives.  A small 0.200 MW hydro power plant is constructed in the Kok area of   Shamshal.

•Shamshal has its largest :adventure area in the Hunza Valley and is a major tourist "attraction•  Its mountains such as Distagil Sar {7,885 m}, Shamsheel White Horn {6,303 m}, Menglik Sar {6,150 m}, Lopghar Sar {7,200 m}, Yazgil Sar {6,000 m}, Kanjut  Sar and other mountains are known to be among the mountaineers. •Huge glaciers include •Malangodhi, •Yazghel, •Khurdopin {5,800 m}, •Broado, •Odor, •Veer Zaraf and the main passages include •Chafchangol, Khurdopin, •My Dor, •Brado, •Boi Sam and others.  •The Khordopen Glacier Pass is the preferred {10} destination for trekkers.  The Shamshalis are in Pakistan because the Sherpals are in Nepal. ○More than twenty well-known climbers from the valley have made Pakistan proud in the field of tourism.  Some call it the "Valley of the Mountains."  Some of them are •Rajab Shah, •Mehraban Shah, •Shambi Khan, •Azizullah, •Qudrat Ali, •Sarwar Ali, •Shaheen Baig, •Ali Musa, •Amruddin Shah, •Aminullah Baig, •Sajjad Karim, •Aziz Baig, •Qurban Muhammad, •Taffat Shah, •Farhad.  Khan, •Wahab Ali Shah, •Fazal Ali, •Hasil Shah, •Yusuf Khan, •Muhammadullah, •Ezzatullah, •Muhammad Bari, •Shafa Ali, •Muhammad Abdul Joshi, •Saeed Ahmed, •Jalaluddin, •Mehraban Karim and others. •Rajab Shah has the honor of scaling the five peaks of more than 8,000 meters in Pakistan.