Skardu Fort

Kharpocho Fort
قلعہ کھرپوچو
A view of fort from the foot of Mont Kharpocho
LocationSkardu, Gilgit-Baltistan
Coordinates35°18′15″N 75°38′22″E / 35.30406°N 75.63957°E / 35.30406; 75.63957
Built16th Century CE
Skardu Fort is located in Gilgit Baltistan
Skardu Fort
Location of Kharpocho Fort
قلعہ کھرپوچو in Gilgit Baltistan
Skardu Fort is located in Pakistan
Skardu Fort
Skardu Fort (Pakistan)
Dogra fort in 1850

Skardu Fort or Kharpocho (Balti: کھر فچو; Urdu: قلعہ سکردو), meaning The king of Forts, is a fort in Skardu in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Australian mountaineer and film maker Greg Child writes that the fort is "perched above the junction of the rivers" and overlooks the Rock of Skardu.[1]

  1. ^ Greg Child. Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas. The Mountaineers Books. p. 72. ISBN 9780898865882.