Baltoro Glacier & K2 Base Camp

The Throne Room of the Mountain Gods. The trek to K2 Base Camp via the Baltoro Glacier is a monumental 140km journey into the heart of the Karakoram. Starting from the village of Askole, the trail winds up the massive Baltoro—one of the longest glaciers outside the poles—passing under the sheer granite cathedrals of Trango Towers and Cathedral Peak. The climax is Concordia (4,700m), the meeting point of the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers, where you are surrounded by the highest concentration of high peaks on Earth, including four 8,000m summits: K2, Broad Peak, and Gasherbrum I & II.

Mount Ararat (Ağrı Dağı) is a massive, dominant dormant volcano and the highest peak in Turkey, towering at an immense 5,137 meters (16,854 ft). Geographically situated in the extreme east of the country, jutting up aggressively from the surrounding plains near the borders of Iran and Armenia, it is famous worldwide as the biblical resting place of Noah's Ark. Climbing Ararat is a strenuous, non-technical high-altitude mountaineering expedition. Typically completed over 3 to 4 days from the southern route near the town of Doğubayazıt, the trek involves slogging up vast fields of volcanic scree, establishing camps at 3,200m and 4,200m, and finally executing an exhausting, freezing midnight summit push over the permanent ice cap that crowns the peak.