9ª etapa Trek Baltoro. De Gore I a Paiju Camp.
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- Distance
- 16.39 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,001 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 3,507 ft
- Max elevation
- 13,541 ft
- TrailRank
-
89
5
- Min elevation
- 10,935 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 8 hours 41 minutes
- Time
- 12 hours 26 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4666
- Uploaded
- August 26, 2019
- Recorded
- August 2019
near Lhungka, Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
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IMPORTANT NOTE: THE DIFFICULTY WITH WHICH I CATALOG MY ROUTES IS REFERRED TO MOUNTAINS USED TO WALK, WHO UNWIND WITH FACE ON ALL THE LAND, NOT FOR OCCASIONAL HIKERS. IF YOU HAVE LITTLE EXPERIENCE, ADD ONE MORE DEGREE TO THE DIFFICULTY OF MY ROUTES SO YOU WILL NOT GET SURPRISES
Ninth stage of our trek, but second stage of our return from Ali Camp. Curiously in all the stages of return, when it is impossible to cross the Gondogoro-La, the weather has improved substantially, it will no longer rain or snow, nor will we hardly see any cloud, it is as if the monsoon that became strong and crossed the Himalaya to get fully into the heart of the Karakorum, it would have already fulfilled its mission of turning us back.
The stage is going to be very long (like the one the day before and the one the next day), but I'm already wearing my comfortable shoes and my feet no longer suffer the same as with the rigid high-mountain boots I wore yesterday. We are going downhill (although in the lower section of the Baltoro Glacier this is a saying since the terrain forces you to make continuous detours up and down).
We started the day walking on the glacier for a long time until we reached the Urdukas Camp (where we had slept a few days before). Here we make a stop and then continue a very long stretch around the glacier on its southern slope, without stepping on it at any time until well past Camp Liligo. We do a good wading (the river that comes down draining from the Liligo Glacier, past the Khoburse Camp, goes down very rough at the time we cross them) with the help of the porters and guides. The rest of the route outside the glacier spreads much more than when you walk through it. But after Camp Liligo we have to go back up to the most labyrinthine section of Baltoro. We climb to join the great mass of ice at an hour when stones do not stop falling on our left (some of considerable size) so we must be very careful (also those that our own companions may accidentally throw in the sections that go above us). After walking for a long time through the labyrinthine glacier, we finally descended and walked the short distance that separates us from our goal for the day, Camp Paiju, where we had already spent two nights on our way out. From the last stretch of the Baltoro Glacier we can finally see the spectacular Torres del Trango from this perspective (we couldn't do it on the way out due to bad weather).
Ninth stage of our trek, but second stage of our return from Ali Camp. Curiously in all the stages of return, when it is impossible to cross the Gondogoro-La, the weather has improved substantially, it will no longer rain or snow, nor will we hardly see any cloud, it is as if the monsoon that became strong and crossed the Himalaya to get fully into the heart of the Karakorum, it would have already fulfilled its mission of turning us back.
The stage is going to be very long (like the one the day before and the one the next day), but I'm already wearing my comfortable shoes and my feet no longer suffer the same as with the rigid high-mountain boots I wore yesterday. We are going downhill (although in the lower section of the Baltoro Glacier this is a saying since the terrain forces you to make continuous detours up and down).
We started the day walking on the glacier for a long time until we reached the Urdukas Camp (where we had slept a few days before). Here we make a stop and then continue a very long stretch around the glacier on its southern slope, without stepping on it at any time until well past Camp Liligo. We do a good wading (the river that comes down draining from the Liligo Glacier, past the Khoburse Camp, goes down very rough at the time we cross them) with the help of the porters and guides. The rest of the route outside the glacier spreads much more than when you walk through it. But after Camp Liligo we have to go back up to the most labyrinthine section of Baltoro. We climb to join the great mass of ice at an hour when stones do not stop falling on our left (some of considerable size) so we must be very careful (also those that our own companions may accidentally throw in the sections that go above us). After walking for a long time through the labyrinthine glacier, we finally descended and walked the short distance that separates us from our goal for the day, Camp Paiju, where we had already spent two nights on our way out. From the last stretch of the Baltoro Glacier we can finally see the spectacular Torres del Trango from this perspective (we couldn't do it on the way out due to bad weather).
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12,708 ft
Camino por la vertiente sur del Glaciar Baltoro. Glaciar que cae por la izquierda desde el Pico Urdukas.
River
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11,869 ft
Subiendo al Glaciar Baltoro. Caída de piedras. Terreno bastante inestable y descompuesto.
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Paisajes increíbles.
Gracias por la valoración Paco! Una pena que el tiempo no acompañara demasiado.
Un abrazo fuerte 🤗