Author: Jason Black

Arriving into a still and quite K2 basecamp this morning at 7.30am. Camp is set along the head of the glacier where all the teams claim territory with the cooking and eating tent centre and with the climbers individual tents surrounding. Our early arrival spooked a few tents and it wasn’t long until curious heads…

Tuesday 7th July a date I ever forget , My first view of K2 ” the savage mountain” and its jaw dropping huge. Only ever seeing the mountain through the eyes of someone else, this mornings a really special view when it’s your own and to have only dreamed of sitting at the base of…

Just arrived at location Goro II from Urdokas. Sitting in the most beautiful basin like section of the Baltoro glacier, surrounded by the most magnificent peaks of the Gashu Brum ahead you can see G4 standing at 7970mts climbed by only twenty in its life time. Behind you can just see its brother G1 peeking…

Sunday 5th July My location is Lat 35’43.613N long 76’17.054E ” Google Earth and see “. After a great nights sleep, it was up and away early. Breakfast 4.30am break camp and on the move 6.20am to a beautiful sun filled morning. Breakfast was porridge ,flat bread stuffed with peeled boiled egg, swallowed down with…

5.30am seen an early rise for the team as temperatures that day were to sore high and to avoid exposure to the blistering sun we set off early for our next destination Jula set further up the valley approx 20kms. A common thread of an upset tummy ran through some team members which is not…

So positioned at 35’40.612N latitude 76’07.54E longitude along side the river bank in an area of the valley called Payu at 3274mts above sea level. Starting out from Skardu by jeep in the early hours of Wednesday morning with the jeeps heaven loaded with all the provisions required to carry out the expedition,signalled the expedition…