27.05.2007
We arrived to Islamabad at 6:30 am on May, 23. We had lot of deals to make and a heap of questions to settle. I cannot believe that it is possible to do all that things for one day, but we managed to do.
First of all we were very glad that all our cargo and gear delivered sound as often happens on every step. We know that from experience of the last expeditions organized by our friends.
It was a very eventful day: a meeting with Nazir Sabir, the head of our inviting company, a briefing in Alpine Club of Pakistan , buying food, a meeting with our cook, by the way he appeared a very pleasant man with long expeditional experience. - Well, we will examine that soon.
At the end of the day we had a dinner in the restaurant. Unfortunately I did not manage to meet the guys from Russian K-2 expedition, I just did not have free time.
On May, 24 at 6.00 am we left Islamabad, drove 350 km for 14 hours and very exhausted we arrived to the small settlement of Chilas.
On May, 25 at 5.00 am we started from Chilas and at 3.00 pm reached to Karimbad. We were deeply smitten with the beauty of these places. Karimbad is located at 2300 m. Everything around is lapped in green and direct from the settlement the magnificent views on the most beautiful tops - Mt. Ultar (7400 m.) and Mt. Rakaposhi (7787 m.) opens. In Karimbad we bought additional food and met the assistant of our cook.
On May, 26 we got to the last settlement of Hispar located at 3000 m where solved some questions with porters.
Early in the morning on May, 27 Patrick and I together with our cook and his assistant and a caravan of 30 porters started a two-day track heading to the mountains aside base camp Kuniang Chhish …