This new series highlights the best hikes around the world, trails that we would someday like to hike on and enjoy. There are an assortment of caches along the Elgin trail commemorating these other trails.
The world-renowned Baltoro Glacier in the Himalayan Mountains in Pakistan has some of the planet’s most amazing scenery. A procession of mind-blowing rock towers and shining peaks surround the trek all the way to K2 Base Camp.The route up the Baltoro Glacier to Concordia, where the Godwin-Austen, Upper Baltoro, and Vigne glaciers all converge, is indeed a trek into the throne room of the mountain gods, as photographer Galen Rowell proclaimed. The 62-km long Baltoro Glacier, the Karakoram’s third longest, is Pakistan’s top trekking destination. Along the lower Baltoro are amazing granite towers and sheer walls: Uli Biaho, the Trangos, and the Cathedrals. These monsters of rock yield above Concordia to the incomparable snow-clad giants. Seven of the world’s 25 highest peaks rise above the glacier. Within 25km of one another are the Gasherbrums, Broad Peak and K2 (height 8611 m), so massive yet so ethereal, the ultimate mountain of mountains. Today, it takes only eight days to cover the 72 km one way to Concordia. Half of the trekking distance and only two camp sites, Goro II and Concordia, are actually on glacier, and all of it is nontechnical. By Karakoram standards, it’s gentle glacier travel at its best.
Opa Norshley helped me with the hides and the listing. Hope you like these.
The cache is in a tree just over the trail.