Chapter 11 - The Land of Giants - Walk to K2 and Concordia Rest
It seemed the mountains were impossibly high and the glacier was impossibly wide. It was the land of giants. We left early in the morning at 6:00 am for K2 basecamp. By 9:30 we had crossed Broad Peak base camp an were within reach of Gilkey Memorial at almost 17000 feet when we saw bad weather coming over Concordia. We decided it would be prudent to make it back before nightfall. Ignacio was determined to get to the memorial. His teacher had died on K2, and this was something of a pilgrimage to him and I didn't have the heart to deny him. So we went with Ayub while the rest os us headed back. An hour down, and the sun was shining again, but now it was too late to turn back. It was good that we kept going because the weather changed again and at the worst part of the terrain, what we called "The Maze", we had sleet and high winds as we tried to make our way over ravines and gullies. We got lost and finally found our way back after Ibrahim raced down from camp.
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