K2 Trekking Continues to Goro 2 Camp
The K2 base camp trek continues. Today the team reached Goro 2 camp on the Baltoro Glacier and has their sights set on Concordia tomorrow where hopefully the skies will clear and provide the first views of K2. Expedition leader Garrett Madison provides today’s expedition dispatch and some of the first photos of the trek via our Iridium GO! global connection device:
Hello! This is Garrett calling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2/Broad Peak expedition team.
Today we trekked from Urdukas camp (4034m/13,235ft) to Goro 2 camp (4285m/14,058ft) on the Baltoro Glacier. It was a rainy day; it started raining last night and cleared up a little bit during the day today. It was cool and cloudy, which was actually really nice for trekking – not too hot.
We got into Goro 2 camp here and just had a nice dinner. We can see some of the surrounding peaks: Masherbrum, G4 and we’re looking forward to trekking up through Concordia (4570m/14,993ft) tomorrow. Hopefully, it will clear and we’ll get a nice view of K2.
Everyone’s doing well here. The team’s excited to be working our way up the glacier towards base camp and hoping for some good weather!
2021 K2/Broad Peak team in Skardu
Crossing a stream while trekking from Paiju to Urdukas
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In addition to these expedition dispatches, you can also follow our teams as they make their attempts on the world’s most formidable mountains on:
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