| Near the top of the 800m Couloir of 1000 gutters | [ Sizes: Orig | Large | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
Near the top of the 800m Couloir of 1000 gutters. At this point I had to stop climbing and start traversing to my partner (with the camera) due to hard, sugary ice that made continuing directly up too difficult.
The peak on the left of the photo is Chu Kurrti Dast West (5685m). Yazghil Sar (5964m) is the peak in the background centre-right. The peaks on the horizen in the left are those lining the north side of the Virzherav Glacier, which form part of the Ghuzherav mountains extending to the Chinese border.
(c) Peter Thompson
Comments
[ Post a Comment ]| justahiker | Great!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Really great shot!!
| | Posted Oct 23, 2006 3:36 pm |
 | | Martin Cash | Re: Great!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | Agreed, awesome stuff! | | Posted Oct 23, 2006 3:48 pm |
| bidwelldk | Awsome shot! | | 
Voted 10/10 | This is what it's all about. | | Posted Oct 23, 2006 4:18 pm |
| Ski Mountaineer | One | | 
Voted 10/10 | of my favourite shots. Climbing and awesome scenery, the mixture I like | | Posted Jan 28, 2007 10:56 am |
| | BigLee | Re: One | | 
Hasn't voted | Thanks. I really like this photo as well and will probably get it blown up and framed at some point. We were actually making a big traverse at the time towards a col (from where the photo is taken from) having run in to poor ice up the left side. It proved an absolute epic traversing across numerous runnels and flutings but atleast we got a nice photo in the process!! | | Posted Jan 29, 2007 9:03 am |
| Cyrill | nothface | | 
Voted 10/10 | Looks steep! | | Posted Nov 18, 2007 3:05 pm |
| | BigLee | Re: nothface | |
Hasn't voted | I think it's actually steeper than it looks as you can't see all the runnels in this photo which made some sections quite difficult. Ice conditions were also pretty awful and very sugery and inconsistant. | | Posted Nov 19, 2007 5:47 pm |
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