Date le continue (e giustificatisssime) lamentele sulla lentezza del sito, ho approfittato dei noiosi giorni di ospedale e convalescenza per metterlo un po a dieta. Sulla carta i risultati sono piu' che soddisfacenti, spero lo siano anche dal vivo...
Day.01 - From Islamabad to Besham (270 Km - 8 Hrs) on Karakoram Highway (KKH, the highest paved international road in the world)
Day.02 - Wake up at 5.30. Leave for Hunza valley at 6.30. Saw Nanga Parbat,Gilgit river,Hunza river. Arrival in Karimabad@18 Tanning in hotel balcony for a hour, then gone trying the new trekking shoes for 1hr in village. Saw guys playing cricket. Dinner with Riazh and local alpine guide (Majeed)
Day.03 - Woke
Breakfast@6 and leave in a jeep to trekkig starting point (Hoper Village - 1hr, altitude 3.000mt) A few kms and we have to change a tire, my damn good luck with cars has arrived even here. 8.30 trekking start,after recruiting two porters (Gulam Murtaza and Ramazan Ali) in local village. Lost a porter just after half an hour, but found a new useful friend(little donkey). Arrival @13 at destination,3.600 mt. Just put down the camp and began raining and very cold. Released the donkey. Group is now so composed: Me, Majeed(the guide), Mr. Amin Khan (cook), Gulam (porter), Ramazan(porter), Intikhab (assistant). 14.30 rain stopped, only very windy now. By the time we cook and eat something, sun comes out again. Little siesta after meal broken by goats eating our food (some mangos and all the bread actually). We choose to go to a nearby shepard shelter. Shepard offers us goat milk and let us free to use his shelter, so porters prepare bread in traditional pakistan style. Stay there for at least 2 hours, then go back to camp.19 dinner(me and Majeed, porters and cook always eat separately). Amin tryes to talk to me in a strange paki-english I am not so good understanding, I cannot do other than providing big smiles and yes as answers.. Majeed speaks a very good English, I have good conversations with him. Porters are totally pakistan.the only english sentences they say me are :'Thank you, Sir, hello Sir, here you are Sir'. This puts me a little bit of suggestion.. h21.30 in bed,wake up is scheduled for 6o'clock tomorrow.
Day.04 Wake up @6,
, burnt trash, made up tents and
Start the climb of a very steep mountain. Hard. Oxygen lack knocks at my door and kicks me in the ass. Legs are getting as heavy as the rocks I walk. Sun becomes hotter at every step and I undress every 45min. Finally reach the top@11. Amazing landscape. Took confidence with porters. Long break til 12, then start walking again, on a less steep hill. Arrive at the base camp@13. Met another expedition (pakistan guide and german guy, who is travelling for all Asia since oktober 07 til september). Sun is too hot. Just by the camp there's a little structure made of rocks, went there to make bread and cook. German guy is totally crazy. He's aroud with a few things and w/o tent. Tonight he'll sleep just in his sleeping bag, outside, and tonite it will be very cold.. Eat@8,changed some words with Majeed and Mathias, went to the toilet then back to my tent, rounded by cows(I'm so scared..). I had my front lamp, flashed them and saw tens of little green eyes in the dark..
Day.05 - Smashed.arrived at base
, but a step backward.. Cows trouble didn't let me sleep so well..my scare became worry, just when I realized 3 or 4 cows where at a few centimeters out of my tent, so near I could hear them breathing.. furthermore night was soo cold, think it was a few degrees up zero.. anyway.. wake up@8,breakfast and leave camp at 8.30, headed Rush Lake, 4.900mt. Less than 2hrs and we are there. During trek we meet Mathias, who slept outside, woke up at 5 and was just coming back from there.. little pause@lake then leave bags there and 3 go to Rush Peak(5.500mt). Just a few steps to there we meet a group of yaks! 1hr and a half we reach it, the highest point of all the trek, beautiful. Then we go back to camp@lake, eat something(it's 13) and see our yaks going to the water. As they come out they begin to fight..after all this, we begin our downhill(we go from 5.500mt of Rush Peak to 3.500mt of new base camp). Trek last almost 3hrs, veery hard. In the last half hour I did not have control on my legs.. arrive@
and collapse in my tent, til diner time(8.30).after dinner, tea time talking with Majeed of the Shaman (during downhill he picked up some junipers and told me they were for the Shaman of Karimbad)..not even the time to finish it and I receive an urgent shit call, run to tent, take toilet paper and lamp and go to a near good shitting place. Did my things.. just as I light on the lamp to see where toilet paper has ended, I flash the usual little green eyes, this time on a smaller animal. Scare takes me, run back with pants half down and call for help.. Majeed explain me they are only little oxen (damn them), they already saw them near camp a few hrs before. So I go back to my wc, end what I did not end and go back to talk around the fire till 23, then tent calls me.
Day.06 - Wake
, breakfast and
Crossed 2 glaciers and arrive at a beautiful shepard village.. we spend there a lot of time just chillin' and talking. Arrival at camp@13. Tanning on the rocks til my skin became red hot, took a shower with torrent water from the glacier (I think it's 3-4 degrees up the zero, soo refreshing!!). Majeed explains me tere's a tradition if the trekking goes well and client in satisfied, he offers a goat to eat, so I Bought a goat from nearby shepards village (2.500 Rp, $50), killed (not me, the porters) it and eaten it (me just some meat, the others eat all of the goat, included lungs, liver, stomach, and so on, apart the earth).
Day.07 - Wake up late, lunch at shepard village with boiled sheep leg. Rain starts@14. 14.30 we leave the village with destination Hoper. All my cameras batteries are gone, so last pics are taken with cell phone camera.. Night in Hoper in a motel. Amin offers us a chicken for his promise to offer it if he could survive to this all (he was not used trekking like this..)
Day.08 - Jeep to Karimabad,arrival@11. All day in Karimabad, visiting Baltit Fort, Riaz house, internet point.
Day.09 - We are on the road back to Islamabad. Stop in Gilgit for the night, very beautiful 5 stars hotel. Took a very long shower, a good one with warm and clean water after almost 10 days..
Day.10 - On the road to Islamabad we stop at Besham and spend the night in a motel (far away different from the Gilgit Five stars hotel...)
Day.11 - Back to Islamabad. Visited a mosque dressed like a Pakistan (the only long pants I could wear are the ones on Pakistan dress I bought in Giglit for my bro..), went to a local armor shop (where you can buy a AK47 Kalasnikov replica made in Pakistan (.45 caliber) for $300 (did not contract price...).
Foto : Summer in Sardinia !
Clip : Helicopter Ride over Puntaldia ! 
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