ADVENTURE

A new travel magazine dedicated to Pakistan showcases the country’s great outdoors.

picture. I have been visiting regularly and my experiences have been really quite extraordinary.” To share her passion for the country while challenging the stereotypes attached to it, Hussain has launched

Capra Falconeri Traveller (cftpakistan mag.co.uk), a wanderlust-inducing magazine dedicated to all things Pakistan. The biannual publication takes its title from the scientific name for the country’s national animal, a species of screw-horned mountain goat known in Urdu as markhor. Like the markhor, which has been rescued from the brink of extinction by community-based conservation efforts, “Pakistan, too, is re-emerging,” Hussain explains.

Themed around adventure, the magazine’s inaugural edition explores an enticing array of lesser-visited locales and locally run enterprises. There’s Hunza On Foot (hunzaonfoot.com), a trekking company that brings intrepid guests into the Karakoram Mountains of northern Pakistan to engage with indigenous communities and sleep in updated shepherd’s huts. Other stories introduce readers to Glamp Katpana (glamp.pk), which operates solar-powered tented camps in the high-altitude desert of Katpana and the alpine plains of Deosai National Park; and the Luxus Hunza (luxushunza.com), whose chalet-style cabins overlook the glacial blue waters of Attabad Lake. And if that’s not compelling enough, consider scuba diving in the waters off Karachi, doing yoga amid the fresh mountain air of Gilgit, or joining Karakoram Bikers (karakorambikers.com) for a motorcycle ride to the 4,693-meter Khunjerab Pass.

“Pakistan has so much to offer — and not just for adventure seekers,” Hussain says. “There’s millennia-worth of history, Mughal-era architectural masterpieces, fantastic food, and the warm hospitality of its people. I’m already overflowing with ideas for our second issue.”

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