Best Season              June ? September
Max. Elevation          5550 Meters

You arrive Islamabad airport and after briefing in Ministry of Tourism, the next day you would be rushing to Skardu by air in PIA's Boeing 737 aircraft if the weather is favourable otherwise dare to go by road because all the flights are subject to weather conditions to Skardu and Gilgit. Though it is long journey to Skardu takes almost 18 hours with a night on the way in Chilas but intersting views on the way. 

After getting Skardu, take a good rest and relax yourself for you have to go on real trekking the next day. Get well packed and prepare yourself mentally and physically. The trek needs physical fitness.

Early in the morning you have to ride local Jeeps to go Thongol(125km on rough road) takes about 6 to 7 hours. You spend a night here and the next day you start your real trekking from here on. Within an hour or so, you will get Askole, the last human inhibition and then you won't see any place inhibited with people. After passing the valley you follow a small water channel. After two hours you cross a small wooden bridge and cross the river then a long plain desert and then after couple of hours you stay for lunch and heading for Jula for night. Next day you will be heading for Payju, a beautiful place to pitch tents with greenery and good water for washing. Tourist usually spend a whole day here to get acclimitized and to go hiking up to Payju peak.

You have to walk on the glacier after two hours from Payju and the walk over glacier lasts for about 4 hours. After couple of hours you reach to your campsite in Khuburzte on dry land. Urdukas is about 6 to 7 hours further to Khuburtze and an easy walk. You have many good views of small catherdrals, Payju peak and the beautiful Trango Towers.This is the final campsite on dry land on a tilted greenery with little water. From here on, you have to walk only on glacier with magnificent views of mountains all around and you finally get to Goro. Your campsite is on the glacier and here after you have to walk on the glacier until you reach to Concordia, known as the core of beautifula sky kissing mountains like K-2, Broad  peak, hidden peak, Miter peak and number of other nameless mountains. You have a beautiful view of Siah kangri from here.

It takes a day for Broad peak and K-2 base round trip. Usually tourists reserve a day for that and sometimes go to G-1 and G-2 base camp takes 7 hours one way. The view from G-1 and G-2 base camp is awesome with picturesqe snow capped mountains and peaks all around.

From Concordia, you have to walk for about 6 to 8 hours to get Ali Camp or another one hour if you prefer to spend half the night on High Camp. Crossing Gondogoro La(5560m)  is also subject to the weather conditions otherwise snowing may hinder your compaign. You have to start your walk at midnight to get up to the top of Gondogoro. It is adviseable to use rope from the beginning until you reach to the top. If the weather is  kind, the view from this pass is fine and one can see an excellent panorama of K-2 (8611m, the second highest peak in the world), Broad Peak (8048m), Gashabrum 1-6, Chogolosa (7665m) and Upper Baltoro. The view of skykissing beautiful mountains around Concordia from to of the La is aweinspiring.You have very little time to stay on the top because you have to descend a nasty steep dry place and when the sun rises, stones start falling down from the top. You are on the mid way and you have still 3 to 4 hours to reach Khuespang. Do a good washing here and get freshed and spend a day to climb Gondogoro peak. You are on the dry land now and descending down on the glacier for couple of hours to get Dalzampa, a beautiful campsite with greenery by the glacier. You are descending to Siacho the next day on an easy path through Hushe pasture. Siacho is a beautiful campsite with a shop and you can go to K-6 and K-7 from here. Your final walk on the next day is to beautiful Hushe valley for about 5 to 6 hours and you have beautiful views around. You spend your final night in Hushe valley and then to Skardu from here by jeep.

You are now preparing to leave for Islamabad by air if you are lucky enough or by road in 18 hours. Fly back to home land with beautiful memories of Karakorams.