Trip: Ultimate K2 Trek!
Source: mariachily
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Sep 11 - 26 2008
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Gabe and I flew from Islamabad to Skardu for a two week trek to K2 base camp in Pakistan. It took about a week to get there, which meant 6-7 hours of moderate trekking across the Baltoro Glacier each day. The views were incredible, the air incredibly crisp, and the porters extremely friendly (and fast)! We arrived at Concordia base camp and continued on to K2 base camp. On our trek out, we stopped over at Trango base camp and met up with a climbing expedition team! It was a nice surprise because we also rock climb. We ate Ibex and crossed frigid glacier water...what an adventure!
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Trip: Ultimate K2 Trek!While trekking from Trango Tower base camp to camp Paiu, the path ahead of us gets wiped out with a massive rock fall!
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Trip: Ultimate K2 Trek!In order to shave off 2-3 hours trekking time out of the Karakoram mountain range, we opted to trek out along the Braldu river and cross the frigid glacier waters...
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Trip: Ultimate K2 Trek!On our way back from K2 base camp, Maria and one porter showed off some of their stupid human tricks.
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Trip: Ultimate K2 Trek!Path: K2 Basecamp TrekDistance: 96.14 miThis was a two week trek across the Baltoro Glacier including K2 and Trango Towers base camps!