PAIYU to KHABURSE
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.87 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,762 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 381 ft
- Max elevation
- 12,538 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 12,538 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- one day 21 hours 31 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1744
- Uploaded
- July 5, 2012
- Recorded
- June 2012
near Hainablak, Gilgit-Baltistan (Pakistan)
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Itinerary description
5 to 8 hours.After 90 minutes ,the path divides at the snout of the Baltoro Glacier.The left branch goes to the base camp of Trango Towers and the Sarpo Pass.The right branch drops down past some tamarisk trees before climbing up onto the glacier,where the Braldu River roars out of a black hole as from a sluice gate.Walk across the boulder strewn ice,up and down great grey slag heaps,climbing steadily for 2 to 3 hours on a long diagonal to the other side.Then you follow the southern edge of the glacier across sand and rock for 1 hour to Liligo, a camping site with clearer water.Continue another 1.5 hours for Khaburse,a campsite on the other side of the river flowing from Liligo Glacier.Khaburse a nicer campsite at about 4000m ,with shade under rocks, a small,clean stream and delicious waterfall along with rare sighting chances of Markhor (Ibex) on the eastern mountain.Site has no toilet facility.
(GARMIN GPSMAP 62s logged data of our trek in June 2012)
(GARMIN GPSMAP 62s logged data of our trek in June 2012)
Waypoints
Campsite
12,550 ft
Khaburse
Khaburse campsite
Fountain
12,116 ft
LILIGO
LILIGO rest area
Campsite
11,183 ft
PAIYU
Paiyu campsite
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