K2, the Savage Mountain Delirium,
Thanx for your comments though your gallary obscured my mountain pics within a day.

Yes I have climbed upto Thandiani and then Mirajani. Mirajani on a clear day gives a very good view all around specially Musa ka Masala near Kaghan.

Nangha Parbat is an unstable mountain and still rising. Geologically the rocks are still loose. I gave up high altitude mountaineering due to aggravation of fibrosis in my left lung, something that I suffered from as a child.

In 1987-89, I was a chosen member of Dr. Louis Attiene's expedition to both North and South Pole and a rafting down Amazon. I was then on contract with the government which refused permission, not realising what a big honour it would have been for Pakistan.
In 1988, I nearly reached the summit of Mont Blanc (Europe's Highest) but due to bad weather returned to a cable station and back to Chimonix. I wanted to reach it in four hours from the base but missed it.In any case it was not a challenge.

Aafia Siddiqui to Appear in Court yea and the big ass it is attached to is Indian-Israeli Pine-Jericho System, integrated with listening posts in Kyrghizistan.

Aafia Siddiqui to Appear in Court and do you know that Baitullah has electronic warfare capability. His real time surveillance capability is better than pakistan army. He uses frequency hoppers and jammers.

Aafia Siddiqui to Appear in Court Did you know? When local tribal militants ambushed and captured four NATO bound trailers they found Egyptian ammunition and weapons. For whome?
soon after, two new groups came up and started killing the first one.

K2, the Savage Mountain read my writer's page and my essay on Gashebrum 1

Fissures in the Middle masadi,
you are being kept very busy or are u keeping them busy?. I want them to switch to my article on FP. lol

K2, the Savage Mountain As it was not possible to put picture on my article, I posted them in the Gallery but they were quicklt eclipsed. Arjun has been very kind to paste them here. These pictures have been picked from the net and are not my own. We lost most of our equipment to avalanches. Worst came when much of our equipment was swept by Baltoro River on our way back.

The difficulty factor of K2, surpasses any other mountain of the world. That is why it is called the Savage Mountain for those who meet tragedy and Mountain of Mountains for those who conquer it.

Let me explain each.

#7 View high above from the base camp of the Abruzzi Ridge. Note the location of camp IV. The Bottle neck is also called a spider.

#8 Abruzzi spur, the gateway to a very dangerous route ahead. Safety ends at Camp III in pic #7.

#9 The spider, bottleneck or the summit ridge. This is where there is proliferation of old fixed ropes, seracs, loose rocks and breaking ice. The recent accident on K2 happened here, and so did I survive earlier.

#10 Another view of the summit ridge. Notice the clouds gathering. This expedition lost one climber.

#11 The majestic Mountain of Mountains as viewed from Concordia.

K2, the Savage Mountain These are some more pictures on the gallery.
http://www.chowk.com/gallery/1104/32558

Aafia Siddiqui to Appear in Court In Khuda Ke Liye,a tortured and innocent Shan who had written,'I love USA' on the cell wall added O and M to read USAma.

K2, the Savage Mountain Sadna,
Yes it is. Therefore succesful mountaineers call it the Mountain of Mountains. It's degree of difficulty is far more because of a very long distance between Camp IV and the summit that has to be covered in death zone within 24 hours non stop ie up and down. Mountaineers have no other choice.

Enroute there is no safe place for a camp. Climbers like me did establish a bivouc near Spider Ridge also called Bottle Neck, but it is very very dangerous.The bivoc was swept away.

To understand better, do see the pictures in the gallery.

In contrast, ascent to Everest through the Hilary Route is simple and straight forward. However the North East Ridge of Everest approached through Tibet is equally difficult because of three difficult pyramids just short of the summit. Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker attempted this route for the first time and fell to death.

Its seldom you seek knowledge from me. lol

K2, the Savage Mountain Tahir,
This article was meant for those brave men and women who died on this Savage Mountain, and not to narrate my own story. That would have shifted the focus. Being a flyer, I am sure you must have flown over it many times.
As regards opening the window of my experience, please read my article, 'Gashebrum 1 - The Hidden Peak' on chowk at:

http://www.chowk.com/articles/6736

Charlie,
To read more, just click on my writers page and also the gallery.

Fissures in the Middle masadi, welcome back!
My assesment is that nobody understands IPE better than you and each day I learn a lot from you.
Have you read the book,"confessions of an economic assasin"
Cheerios

Fissures in the Middle majumdar,
You and all chowkies must understand that all politicians operate in the Realist Paradigm in which resort to violence for political ends is considered legitimate. If we all understand this, the fruitless debate must come to an end.

Fissures in the Middle A Pakistani Engineer is the only one in world with nine patents on altering the behaviour of magnetic field.

Fissures in the Middle Dost,
Pointed analysis.
About Iran, USA abetted the revolution as they saw Muslims as biggest threat to Soviet Russia. CIA representatives met and briefed Khomeini in France before his departure for Iran. There was direct comunication with the Mullah when the US embassy was seized for the first time. Subsequently the revolutinaries refused to be puppets and the problem began. From the US perspective, the revolution met the objectives of war against USSR. It also met the objectives of high military spending during Iraq-Iran War returning petro dollars earned during the oil embargo to US and Western coffers.

Have you read the book,Confessions of an Economic Hitman?

Fissures in the Middle our balls are TUNGSREN CARBITE rolled in kinetic energy.