Sar kas huts
The place
Sar kas huts in the Neelum Valley, Kel/Sharda area (Azad Kashmir, northern Pakistan, Pakistan), at 3,134 m elevation, near the Neelum-Jhelum peaks in the high Himalaya. Continuous Pakistan Neelum cluster (batches 251-357, ~38 entries). Sar kas ("head memory" in Urdu-Kashmiri) huts, a group of high-altitude summer herding cabins, in a zone of Himalayan conifers + Cedrus deodara, the sacred deodar cedar + Betula utilis, Himalayan birch + Marmota caudata, the long-tailed marmot + heritage of the Kashmir conflict (the 740 km Line of Control between India and Pakistan, dating from the 1947 partition of British India, and four wars in 1947, 1965, 1971, and 1999 + the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project, 969 MW, completed 2018 + heritage of Kashmiris, population 4 million in Azad Kashmir, with reports of torture documented by UN bodies over 1990-2020).
The setting
Neelum, Kel/Sharda, Azad Kashmir, northern Pakistan, 3,134 m, near the Neelum-Jhelum peaks in the high Himalaya, continuous cluster batches 251-357, ~38 entries, sar kas high-altitude summer herding huts, Himalayan conifers, sacred deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara) + Himalayan birch (Betula utilis) + long-tailed marmot (Marmota caudata) + 740 km India-Pakistan Line of Control from the 1947 partition, four wars 1947/1965/1971/1999 + Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project, 969 MW, completed 2018 + Kashmiris, population 4 million in Azad Kashmir, UN reports of torture 1990-2020.
