Baltoro

I was trekking up the Baltoro Glacier on the way to our Broad Peak and K2 expedition in 2007 when this scene unfolded.

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With Güllich and others he travelled to Pakistan in 1988 to free climb an existing route on the Nameless Tower above the Baltoro glacier, managing to replicate their approach at sea level on a wall that reaches a lung-bursting 6,242m – more than 20,000ft.

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Dressed in a much-patched set of mud-colored shalwar kamiz, like his Pakistani porters, he had the sensation that his heavy black leather mountaineering boots were independently steering him down the Baltoro at their own glacial speed, through an armada of icebergs arrayed like the sails of a thousand ice-bound ships.

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These with _K2_ are the highest mountains round the Baltoro Glacier.

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894

Speakers call for check on environmental degradation in Baltoro

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There is a significant jump up to the next packs, the Baltoro 70 and Deva 70 from Gregory, which would offer plenty of space and options for a two week long trek through the Himalaya or just about anywhere else.

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Over the years, mountaineers, trekkers and their porters have piled up a massive amount of garbage on the Baltoro glacier.

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ACP's call to 2009 Baltoro expeditions: leave only footprints

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Meanwhile Victor Kozlov and Nickolay Totmjanin are on the Baltoro glacier already to scout the faces and choose a line.

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Yet as Musharraf was key to keeping insurgents at bay, on the eve of Pakistan's election, ExplorersWeb's Karrar Haidri sat down with Pakistan's Minister of Tourism Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, for a chat about the Chitral zone (and increasing Baltoro trek pollution).

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