BALTORO TREK DIA 6 Y DIA 7: Ali Camp-Gondogoro La-Hispan-15 Y 16-AGOSTO-2022
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.09 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,110 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 2,976 ft
- Max elevation
- 18,378 ft
- TrailRank
-
62
5
- Min elevation
- 15,303 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 11 hours 6 minutes
- Coordinates
- 482
- Uploaded
- December 9, 2022
- Recorded
- August 2022
near Doksam, Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
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Shortly after reaching Ali Camp it started to rain. Bad business for our night target. We prepared our things, ate something and lay down for a while, hoping to cross, but without any guarantee that we would.
While the group tries to rest our guides negotiate with the Rescue Team in Ali Camp. The weather forecast is not very favorable but not terrible either. The Rescue Team advise against crossing. The porters we have left want to, because their families are one step away if we do.
Finally our guides decide: let's go there!
We leave covered in clothes that we have to take off immediately. It's unusually hot, I'm wearing a T-shirt at 5000!
We advance first through the moraine and then cross the glacier. Then we start the steep climb that does not let up until the summit. It is equipped with fixed ropes to which we anchor with a carabiner. The snow is soft and makes a good track, so we climbed almost half of it without crampons. Halfway up the climb we put them on. It starts to snow, but it doesn't matter. Maximum concentration in each step that, due to the height and the slope that exists, is very difficult. achieved! A lot of emotion, inevitable tears, you don't know if it's because of the effort, to meet the goal, or because of what's left ;)
Because when we thought the bad was over, the worst began. The descent is a skating rink, not because of the ice, but because of the earth itself and the stones. Also very steep and equipped to a large extent with fixed ropes, which sometimes you don't know if they help or hinder because the pulls made by someone at the top affect the entire section of rope and drag those below. But we also could with her 💪.
Once the most complicated part of the descent is done, in which we reach the valley of the glacier, we have almost 4.5 km left, in which we gradually lose altitude. It starts to rain, so we can't enjoy the scenery well. We arrived at Hispan, our camp today, exhausted by the effort, but content. We are welcomed by the beautiful Laila Peak
I give it the category of difficult because of the effort involved in ascending to that altitude, and because I saw a colleague who on other days had no problems having a really bad time
While the group tries to rest our guides negotiate with the Rescue Team in Ali Camp. The weather forecast is not very favorable but not terrible either. The Rescue Team advise against crossing. The porters we have left want to, because their families are one step away if we do.
Finally our guides decide: let's go there!
We leave covered in clothes that we have to take off immediately. It's unusually hot, I'm wearing a T-shirt at 5000!
We advance first through the moraine and then cross the glacier. Then we start the steep climb that does not let up until the summit. It is equipped with fixed ropes to which we anchor with a carabiner. The snow is soft and makes a good track, so we climbed almost half of it without crampons. Halfway up the climb we put them on. It starts to snow, but it doesn't matter. Maximum concentration in each step that, due to the height and the slope that exists, is very difficult. achieved! A lot of emotion, inevitable tears, you don't know if it's because of the effort, to meet the goal, or because of what's left ;)
Because when we thought the bad was over, the worst began. The descent is a skating rink, not because of the ice, but because of the earth itself and the stones. Also very steep and equipped to a large extent with fixed ropes, which sometimes you don't know if they help or hinder because the pulls made by someone at the top affect the entire section of rope and drag those below. But we also could with her 💪.
Once the most complicated part of the descent is done, in which we reach the valley of the glacier, we have almost 4.5 km left, in which we gradually lose altitude. It starts to rain, so we can't enjoy the scenery well. We arrived at Hispan, our camp today, exhausted by the effort, but content. We are welcomed by the beautiful Laila Peak
I give it the category of difficult because of the effort involved in ascending to that altitude, and because I saw a colleague who on other days had no problems having a really bad time
Waypoints
Campsite
16,218 ft
Ali Camp (4.940 M)
Mountain pass
Lake
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Una semana antes pasamos por allí. Èramos el grupo de Tente y conseguimos cruzar el Goro todos los componentes del grupo.
Impresionante recorrido de un Trek inolvidable.
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Muy buena descripción y fantástica ruta. Sirve de aviso a todos sobre la dificultad y riesgo de la bajada. Gracias por compartir.