Raikot Sarai (Sarai is a Persian word for ‘inn’) is a camp resort located atop the heavily forested Fairy Meadows in North Pakistan, at an altitude of 3306m. Established in 1992, this tourist destination is highly popular among mountaineers and trekking enthusiasts for its exhilarating ‘Nanga Parbat Experience’. Looking on from the Sarai lodges one can see the Raikot Glacier yawning beneath the North face of the Killer Mountain.
Studded with alpine trees, Fairy Meadows gets its name from the legendary claim that fairies inhabit the meadow.
Reinhold Messner (born 17th September 1944) is a mountaineer, adventurer and explorer from the Italian autonomous province of South Tyrol, "whose astonishing feats on Everest and on peaks throughout the world have earned him the status of the greatest climber in history.
