Day 11. Climbed Gondogoro Pk c5700m

Gondogoro La (the flat snow area at lower right) from Gondogoro Peak; Gasherbrum I behind (left)

Sarwar on top of Gondogoro Pk (the slopes behind are on the other side of a glacier)

Moments later he fell, but we had put the rope on for the descent, and I had him on an iceaxe-boot belay.

View down our ascent route --- the last 150m were a series of increasingly steep and icy steps.

View back at Gondogoro Peak

After the rocks and moraine of the Baltoro, the grass and flowers of the Hushe valley were a delight

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