#baltoro glacier

Pakistan

Pakistan’s boarders encompass an area controlled only by nature. We cannot imagine how to tame it. It is something you must accept or face it in every step along the way. 

Here, we become lesser, somehow, and can only see ourselves in respect to nature’s existence. 

On our second day of hiking the landscape began to change. The water grew in prominence and the ground became more rocky.   It was another longish, 20km day.  After lunch, one of the main attractions came into view, Baltoro glacier,  and we moved to mount it.  It doesn’t look like much (last 2 photos) but later posts will show its immensity. Covered in rocks, it’s not always beautiful in photos like arctic glaciers. In person, it is hard to comprehend. 63 kilometers of ice. What else could create such a landscape? 

I don’t know where that horse came from in the first photo. It was wild and not with us.