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| Photo: K2 as seen from Concordia |
The Mountain Company's K2 & Gondogoro la trek in Pakistan during August 2012 led by Chris Horobin is now guaranteed to run and there is currently availability. We have a long track record of organising treks in Pakistan, our groups have visited this country every year since 2004.
Please get in contact with us soon if you would like to join our K2 & Gondogoro la group in 2012.
I arrived back to
After arrival to Concordia on 19th we discussed the options for the next day, five people decided to make the long walk to K2 Base Camp and Gilkey memorial while the others opted for the shorter walk to Broad Base Camp. As ever it was an emotional visit to Gilkey especially seeing the new memorial and a broken ski from Fredrik Ericsson who died earlier this summer, for further information please see his blog
We decided to leave Ali Camp at
At The Mountain Company we believe strongly in looking after our porters, we are the only trekking company operating on the Baltoro that provides waterproof jackets and trousers plus walking shoes to our porters. We follow International Porter Protection Group five guidelines in
Overall we had a great trip with perfect weather at Concordia and for crossing Gondogoro La, as ever
The Mountain Company plans to run our K2 & Gondogoro La trek again in August 2011 so please get in touch soon if you would like to join this group. We also plan to operate our Snow Lake Biafo Hispar trek in July 2011
Please click here for our full Trip Report on The Mountain Company's blog
Photo: climbing up Gondogoro La
This year the Gondogoro La was in a good condition and all of the group successfully crossed the pass. This was especially good news after last summer when a large crevasse blocked the route up the Gondogoro La. Having spoken to the Hushe Rescue Team, who are responsible for maintaining the fixed rope on the pass, there was a large serac fall during the winter that luckily plugged this crevasse.
Roland did a recce of the Gondogoro La the day before the group arrived to Ali Camp (on their rest day after the long day to K2 BC and Gilkey memorial) in order to check the quality of the ropes and anchors. Generally the ropes were in a reasonable condition, however we put in 200m of extra rope secured by icescrews and snowstakes to protect our passage. The Mountain Company donated this equipment to the Hushe Rescue Team (as well as paying the toll to cross the pass) so hopefully will be used in the future to increase the security of other groups going over the pass.
Photo: Gilkey memorial near K2 BC
