The Bublimotin, Bubli Motin, Bublimating or Ladyfinger Peak ( ur, لیڈی فنگر), is a distinctive rock spire in the

Batura Muztagh __NOTOC__ The Batura Muztagh () mountains are a sub-range of the Karakoram mountain range. They are located in between central hunza and upper hunza(Gojal valley) in the Hunza district of the Gilgit-Baltistan province in northern Pakistan. They ar ...

, the westernmost subrange of the

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. It lies on the southwest ridge of the

Ultar Sar Ultar Sar () (also Ultar, Ultar II, Bojohagur Duanasir II) is the southeasternmost major peak of the Batura Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range. It lies about northeast of the Karimabad, a town on the Karakoram Highway in the Hunza Valle ...

massif, the most southeasterly of the major groups of the Batura Muztagh. The whole massif rises precipitously above the

Hunza Valley The Hunza Valley ( bsk, , Wakhi: '; ur, ) is a mountainous valley in the northern part of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, formed by the Hunza River, bordering Ishkoman to the northwest, Shigar to the southeast, Afghanistan's Wa ...

to the southeast. Bublimotin is a sharp, relatively snowless, rock spire among the nearby peaks, although it has little

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above the saddle with nearby

Hunza Peak Hunza Peak () lies in the westernmost subrange of the Karakoram range in Pakistan, along with the Ladyfinger Peak (Bublimating). It lies on the southwest ridge of the Ultar Sar massif, the most southeasterly of the major groups of the Batura Muzt ...

. It provides a rock climb (with a very serious alpine approach) and has been the scene of some notable

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. An interesting folk tale about the peak (''Bubli mo Ting'' literally means 'Bubli's peak) is that Kisar, a (magical) prince from Baltistan, came to Hunza on one of his adventures and married a princess, a ''gas,'' called Bubli. When he received news that his first wife in Baltistan, Langabrumo, had been kidnapped (by a ''phut'' or a ''deu,'' one story says, but according to Lorimer's book it is a king from another country), he immediately made preparations to set off and rescue her. He took Bubli up to this mountain, (later named after her), and handed her a sack of grain as well as a hen or chicken (a ''qarqamuts''). She must have asked whether - and when - he would be back and he told her: "Every year give this chicken a single grain to eat. When the sack is empty, I will return. Until that time, stay here." He left, and, they say, Bubli is waiting there still. Lady Finger Peak, Hunza Valley

Note and references

# This elevation is approximate.
''Climbs and Expeditions:Pakistan, The American Alpine Journal (1997),'' pp. 306 - 331

Sources

* Jerzy Wala, ''Orographical Sketch Map of the Batura Muztagh'', 1988.
Himalayan Index

Ladyfinger Peak - Weather Forecast
Six-thousanders of the Karakoram Mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan {{Pakistan-geo-stub

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