By Raza Hamdani
BBC Urdu, Hunza
We drive as far as the road will take us, and then we stop because the debris from the landslide that occurred in January still blocks the road.
To the right, the once steep ridges on which Attabad village was perched now present a vast descent of loose rocks and rubble that fills up the gorge of the Hunza river, creating a huge embankment.
For nearly five months, this embankment has blocked the flow of Hunza river, creating a lake upstream and a desolate gorge below.
If and when the bank is breached, officials expect a 60.96m (200ft) wave of water to hit the areas in immediate vicinity downstream from Attabad on the north-eastern Pakistani border with China.
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