20190819 | Ali Camp - Gondogoro La - Kuispang | Baltoro Trekking 2019 #8
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.54 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,297 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,147 ft
- Max elevation
- 18,492 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 15,464 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 10 hours 53 minutes
- Coordinates
- 549
- Uploaded
- July 27, 2020
- Recorded
- July 2020
near Doksam, Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
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The definitive moment arrives. We are going to cross the Gondogoro.
About 23h on August 18 we got up after a few hours of rest after dinner. Let's collect our belongings, while the team of porters finishes dismantling the few tents we have left in the camp. It should be said that the majority of stores that were seen in the previous video are fixed stores.
We go to day 19 and around midnight we are having breakfast. It is cool and windy, but it gets along well. The porters leave before, well loaded, towards the Kuispang camp, our destination after crossing the pass.
A few minutes later we left, with the main team.
We walked through mixed terrain, between rocks and ice, until we began to cross the western Vigne glacier. Being at night there is nothing recorded. In some sections we had to watch for cracks under the snow (surely the one that fell 2 days ago). Once we reach the base of the hill, we put on crampons, harness and eat a little.
The climb cost us. It did not have much technical difficulty, since we are used to more, but between the altitude, and perhaps having had less breakfast than the rest of the days (due to going up to Ali Camp with few supplies), it took considerably longer than expected. In my case half an hour since it gave me a drop after half a rise. A fixed rope on which they made us secure marked the correct path to avoid bottomless cracks.
Around 7am we arrived at the top, at about 5585 meters (according to the wiki) where 3 boys are waiting for us whose job is to stay on the hill and guide people downhill. We take the necessary photos for the memory and begin to go down. It gives us time to see monuments such as:
Khumul Gri / Vigne Peaks
Gasherbrum
Marble Peak
Nuating
Ihakora
Gondogoro Peak
Laila Peak
We are late. The hill on its north face has very little snow, and a lot of inclination. You have to go down when the ice is still hard, because when the sun hits it, the thaw releases the stones and causes landslides. We went down in a hurry and nervous, the chief of porters gave us cane to get out of the dangerous part. We saw some detachment, but there was no accident to regret. I remember seeing videos of this trip months before, where the helicopter had to come in one of these sections.
Once outside the dangerous zone, we stop to rest and eat a little. And a few hours later, we arrived at the Kuispang camp. It had been days since we saw so much green.
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