I was going to be cryptic, because there’s a small map display in the glider, with a pointer that indicates N. But that tall mountain in the distance is directly S of the aircraft.
Well done… I would have started searching the Ladakh from Skardu… it’s indeed not very far.
The view there is -like Skardu- impressive. Will go flying to this place when I come back from holidays.
Concerning the plane heading, in most of the cases you can deduce it from the shadows. On this picture we can see that the light is more or less coming from above (short shadows), and shadows coming towards the plane… so either the plane was flying south in northern hemisphere, or north in southern.
It’s rough guess, but it helps orienting the map to search.
Thanks, yes the shadows are a good indicator. In this instance, since basically we had the entire world to explore prior to making decisions about where such huge mountains are situated, I wanted just a heading so I could in fact ignore many other aspects. One can also get an idea from the N up on the PFD.
So I had a good idea where to start looking but I then popped down to Chile and Pategonia, briefly looked there but mostly everything had green valleys. Up to the Andes, same green valleys. Quickly ruled all those out. I then concentrated on the brown, wide, south facing approaches to a snow capped mountain with a road running through it and not much in the way of civilisation in the Himalayas. Not many south facing ones with roads through fortunately.
Since the OP was in a glider there had to be an airport nearby - so lucky me there it was.
By the way, that 07 runway at OPGT was good with a slight R bank after T/O. Very pretty area to fly through
The more I do this, the more amazed I am at how fast folk find stuff on an entire world map.
Regarding the shadows, it also depends on am or pm, this is the difficulty with the shadows coming towards a plane.
Well done indeed! That mountain is Nanga Parbat, at 8,126 m (26,660 ft) the 9th highest mountain on Earth.
A couple of years ago I started a glider trip at LFMD Cannes to fly the length of the Alpes as far as Vienna. I enjoyed that trip so much I decided to go on and see how far I could possibly go. I made my way along that line of mountains that continues on from the Alpes: Carpathians, Northern Balkans, along Turkey’s north, the Caucasus, Alborz, and as far as Herat in Afghanistan.
There I stopped, because the whole Hindu Kush was just generic textures and the awful mesh that goes with it. SU16/2024 updated that region, and along with the ORBX Himalaya mesh the area is just stunning. So, I recently decided to continue on. I reckon I can make it as far as Singapore (or close to at least). I also decided to climb all the 8,000m peaks along the way (without oxygen no less 
), which takes a bit of doing in a glider. Of course I couldn’t have made that trip with live weather, and adjusted the winds to suit. My glider currently sits at Jomsom in Nepal, and Everest is waiting!
That is awesome, skillful gliding. Good luck for Everest! 
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A clue - my plane is facing East’ish and geologists the world over are employed at situations like these.
OK next clue - Southern Hemisphere