K2 Expedition [2002]
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K2 EXPEDITION. PAKISTAN.
In the summer of 2002 I jointed the K2 expedition of Carlos Soria (the only mountaineer to have ascended 10 mountains of more than 8,000 meters after turning 60 years old, and he is the oldest person in history to have successfully climbed 7 of them). Carlos Suárez and Jorge Palacio were there too and climbing Sherpas, Jangbu and Lhakpa Gelu, as mountain guides.
We arrived to Islamabad to get the permits when most of the foreigners were leaving the country because the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan. Then we flight to Skardu in Gilgit Baltistan Region to meet the more than 100 porters that will carry 25 kg. of equipment over their shoulders, and made the last arrangements.
We drove through the amazing Karakorum Highway to Askole, the last and remote small village in the mountains at 3,060 m. of altitude and start the trekking of 7 days to the Base Camp of the K2 at 5,135 m.
We passed the nights in tents at Jula, Paiyu, Khoburse, Gore, Urdukas, Concordia, and Base Camp points; after long walking days of sun and hard snow, passing through sliding rocks and crevasses on the way within the great Baltoro Glacier, surrounded by the highest peaks in the Himalayas.
The team tried hard to summit but bad weather, with many snow avalanches, made impossible that time to succeed. Carlos Soria made it after 2 more attempts in 2004.
In the summer of 2002 I jointed the K2 expedition of Carlos Soria (the only mountaineer to have ascended 10 mountains of more than 8,000 meters after turning 60 years old, and he is the oldest person in history to have successfully climbed 7 of them). Carlos Suárez and Jorge Palacio were there too and climbing Sherpas, Jangbu and Lhakpa Gelu, as mountain guides.
We arrived to Islamabad to get the permits when most of the foreigners were leaving the country because the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan. Then we flight to Skardu in Gilgit Baltistan Region to meet the more than 100 porters that will carry 25 kg. of equipment over their shoulders, and made the last arrangements.
We drove through the amazing Karakorum Highway to Askole, the last and remote small village in the mountains at 3,060 m. of altitude and start the trekking of 7 days to the Base Camp of the K2 at 5,135 m.
We passed the nights in tents at Jula, Paiyu, Khoburse, Gore, Urdukas, Concordia, and Base Camp points; after long walking days of sun and hard snow, passing through sliding rocks and crevasses on the way within the great Baltoro Glacier, surrounded by the highest peaks in the Himalayas.
The team tried hard to summit but bad weather, with many snow avalanches, made impossible that time to succeed. Carlos Soria made it after 2 more attempts in 2004.
