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Nanga Parbat as seen from
Islamabad-Skardu flight. If you have luck to get on the flight (costs
about 50 usd only, saves 20hrs by bus) and the weather is good you can
see all Karakoram and Hindukush .... |
Skardu airport. PIA operates this flight
in good visibility only and tends to move all people from non-realized
flights to the next flight and people from the next flight to the other
following flight etc. .... very bad habit! |
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Skardu |
Ford from Skardu do Askole |
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Approaching Askole |
Approaching Askole
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Askole |
After Askole, the valley straight is K2
trek, the valley to the left will be to Biafo Hispar trek. |
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| First part of Biafo
glacier, to Namla campsite |
First part of Biafo glacier, to Namla campsite |
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First part of Biafo glacier, to Namla campsite |
First part of Biafo glacier, to Namla campsite |
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Namla campsite |
Namla campsite |
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Between Namla and Mango campsites,
glacier still broken with a lot of stones and no path |
Mango campsite is at the side of the
glacier, we camp right on the stones to save time going there and back |
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Glacier becomes open and without so much
stones above Mango campsite |
Above Mango campsite, with our porters. We went with porters up to Baintha. They took the load up to Karpogoro campsite (day 5 of 18 days) - the last place where they can go without rope. We took one porter per person so about 35kg of initial load per person was divided equally between us and porters. All of us were using porters for the first time in mountains, here due to various knee/ankle problems we had before the trek. |
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| Side valley to Latok peaks,
at the level of Baintha campsite |
At the level of Baintha campsite |
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Side valley leading to Latok peaks, at the level of Baintha campsite |
Crossing from the middle of Biafo glacier
to Baintha campsite - too late, best to cross earlier at the the level
of Shafung campsite and good grass trail then goes up to Baintha. |
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Crossing from the middle of Biafo glacier to Baintha campsite - such way to campsites sometimes took 1 hours there in the evening and same time back to open glacier next day. |
Baintha campsite |
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Baintha campsite - nice and green but with water only in the evening from some side snow (at our time)! |
Side valley leading to Latok peaks |
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Between Baintha and Marpogoro campsites |
Between Baintha and Marpogoro campsites |
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| Peaks above Marpogoro
campsite |
Peaks above Marpogoro campsite |
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Approaching Marpogoro campsite |
Marpogoro campsite, not so green as
famous Baintha, but more importantly - with a lot of water both in the
evening and in the morning! |
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