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• Sandbagged In Pakistan
  September 2009 - Pakistan » Nangma Valley

  By Clint Estes, winner of a 2009 Zack Martin Breaking Barriers Grant

  “Not even the American ambassador to Pakistan is getting past these gates. Closed means closed!”

  Those are the words that welcomed us to the Kondus Valley of Pakistan…or just short of it. Months earlier, Matt Hepp and I had begun our adventure by applying for a “special permit” to explore unclimbed granite towers within the disputed territory of northern Pakistan. The Kondus Valley is located ...

• Latok 2008
  August 2008 - Pakistan » Panmah Muztagh, Karakoram

  Josh Wharton reports on his 2008 expedition to attempt Latok I in Pakistan, for which he won a Lyman Spitzer Cutting-Edge Award from the AAC.

  On August 22 Whit Magro and I arrived on the Choktoi Glacier for my second trip in as many years to the north side of Latok. Last year Bean Bowers and I spent 42 days below Latok without any reasonable weather for an attempt-surely this year would be different!

  During our first ...