Urdukas Camp (4034m/13,235ft)
Day two of trekking to K2 base camp is completed and expedition leader Garrett Madison provides the day’s expedition dispatch:
Hello, this is Garrett callling in for the Madison Mountaineering K2 and Broad Peak expedition team.
Today is June 30th and today we trekked from Paiju camp up to Urdukas camp on the Baltoro Glacier. We had a wonderful day! It was hot and we did find one glacier pond to jump in and cool off late morning. Had lunch in Khoburtse and then made our way up to Urdukas camp here by the afternoon.
Great views today of the Trango Towers, Nameless Tower, … so many beautiful peaks here, just very spectacular! Very special to be here. We had a wonderful dinner of fresh chicken with rice and curry and fresh tomato cabbage onion salad.
Tomorrow our plan is to leave at 7:00 AM and head up to Goro 2 camp (4285m/14,058ft) out in the middle of the Baltoro Glacier.
Everyone’s doing well here, we’ve been having great weather so far – its a little bit hot until the clouds form in the afternoon. But we’ve all doing well. Looking forward to another great day trekking tomorrow on our way up to K2 base camp.
(photo: The Nameless Tower from the Madison Mountaineering archives)
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