ASKOLE to KOROPHON
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.07 mi
- Elevation gain
- 551 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 541 ft
- Max elevation
- 10,044 ft
- TrailRank
- 38
- Min elevation
- 10,044 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 3 hours 49 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1902
- Uploaded
- July 5, 2012
- Recorded
- June 2012
near Askole, Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
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Itinerary description
4 to 6 hours.There is a good drinking water about 40 minutes beyond Askole, where a slender waterfall sprays down a cliff. Askole to Biafo Glacier is an easy 2 to 3 hours across waste land, with rest stop beside a stream just before Kiser's Polo Ground.Across the river to the south, Testa (Ste Ste) the last village of the valley ,guards the entrance to the gorge leading to the Skoro Pass.Than you cross Biafo Glacier nala(stream) over a hanging bridge and again enter a plain.Its about 1 hour walk to Korophon, a green campsite with sandy river water beside willow trees and thorn bushes at about 3100m.The big stone that gives its name to Korophon is about 20 minutes further on,shepards have build a shelter against the stone, but there is little shade or water.
(GARMIN GPSMAP 62s logged data of our trek in June 2012)
(GARMIN GPSMAP 62s logged data of our trek in June 2012)
Waypoints
Mountain hut
10,015 ft
ASKOLE
ASKOLE
River
9,980 ft
BIA G
BIA G
Bridge
9,830 ft
BIAFO GLA BRG
BIAFO GLA BRG
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