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Great Trango Tower Climbing Expedition
Great Trango Tower is one of the most spectacular granite towers in the world and our objective for this expedition. We climb a very straight forward and technically moderate route up the north face from our base camp on the Dunge Glacier. Our trip begins in Islamabad; then we travel by private bus along the Karakoram highway to Skardu. From here we take jeeps into Askole where we start the 7-day trek into our base camp below Uli Biaho and the Trango Towers. Quite a place with huge granite rock towers reaching thousands of feet high, dropping down to the churning moraine of the Dunge and Trango glaciers. A trek up towards Concordia, near K2 base camp, helps us acclimatize for the climb. The route is mixed snow/ice climbing at a relatively moderate grade, with some lower angle rock sections. This is an amazing way to reach the summit of Great Trango, in the shadow of K2! Adventures International director, Scott Woolums, did the first ascent of this route, the third ascent of the mountain’s summit.