The trek along the Baltoro Glacier to Concordia and K2 Base Camp is one of the great walks of the world, through a landscape of granite towers and ice.
K2 is 8,611 metres high, the second-highest mountain in the world and, to many climbers, the hardest. Trekkers do not have to climb it. From Askole the Baltoro trail follows the glacier for about eight days to Concordia, where K2, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum IV rise at the same junction, and on to K2 Base Camp.
This is a serious trek that needs a fit group, porters and a guide who knows the glacier. It is made under permit rules for the Central Karakoram National Park, and we arrange those. Most groups go from late June to August.
Highlights
- Concordia, where several great glaciers meet
- Views of K2, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum IV
- The Trango Towers
- The Gondogoro La loop, around 5,600 metres
