Highway of the Giants

Highway of the Giants
Originally uploaded by tree_elf_ [camera broke :'( ].

The incredible icy-white expanse of the West-Vigne Glacier bordered by peaks easily exceeding 6,500m south of K2 and the Baltoro, goes on and on and on as we tread laboriously (and wheezingly) past freezing fast-moving glacial melt (in green, foreground) towards distant Chogolisa (7665m) and Ali Camp (5000m)

Gondogoro La Trek
West-Vigne Glacier (5000m)
The Karakorams
Pakistan
August 2006