Adventure & Nature - Karakoram Diaries

Then, in the late eighteenth century, two determined souls one a local mountain guide familiar with every valley echo, the other a doctor driven by scientific hunger set out with a seriousness different from those before them. They did not climb for fame. They climbed to understand.

Baltoro Glacier Trek Located in Karakoram Range, northern Pakistan, leading to K2 Base Camp. Everest Base Camp Trek Located in the Khumbu region of Nepal, leading to the base of Mount Everest.

Mount Elbrus rises to 5,642 meters in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia. It is the highest mountain in Europe by geographical classification.

Before 1902, K2 had not been seriously approached for climbing purposes, although it had been surveyed and named during the Great Trigonometric Survey of British India.