Author: Jason Black

Tuesday – wend & today Thursday 6th July sees me finally roll into Islamabad international airport making my way painfully to my Irish shores…. Painful in a whole lot of levels. Starting the non stop journey from base camp seen my feet firstly have to endure 95km straight through to Askole blisters like small lakes…

Monday 3rd August marks finally the end of the K2 basecamp trail as we finished the gruelling 95km trek out of the Baltero valley to our end point at Askole. From there it’s my mechanical means as we take to Toyota jeeps on the harsh dusty roads to Skardu. Half way along the twisting mountain…

Thursday 30th July and now on the second day of the trek out from K2 on route to Skardu, both days were 23kms last night stopping along side the Baltoro glacier which looks completely different from the journey in with the temperatures increasing, snow & ice melting from the surrounding mountains, the rivers now flow…

Just before i leave K2 for home i want the last chapter of this incredible expedition to be about humanity and humility…. Without doubt, we all get handed “lemons”sometimes in life. No one is immune from this. Maybe it’s an incurable illness, dealing with depression, maybe it’s a duff education, a dysfunctional upbringing, losing our…

Monday 27th July Over the last few days and nights ive been riding a crazy emotional roller coaster of highs and lows unimaginable on K2. Starting out with the highs of weeks of seriously hard work climbing super high carrying heavy loads preparing the route to the summit with ropes ,tents, food oxygen and everything…

Sunday 26th July and we’re still feeling & living the effects of the natural disasters on K2. Through the nights the constant reminder of the volatility of the might of K2 could be heard echoing thru the glacier valley, crushing and crashing avalanches ripping everything in its path. On Broad peak our sister seven summits…

Friday 24th July and 4am marks the finally anticipated push for the summit of K2. Sleeping was light with a mind full of forget me knots for the days ahead. Equally the still night was full of Avalanche in the surrounding mountains with an alarming one at 1.40am lasting a full 90 seconds as it…

23rd July 2015 and bad weather halts progress on the mighty K2. After much debate over weather forecasts from many different sources showing clear not so clear weather ,high to low winds ,predictions of incoming snow at multiple levels. It’s thrown a real shadow over basecamp and with every turning head everyone’s an expert to…