Wedstrijd
The rocky road to K2 (door Mirjam Wouters - Netherlands)
I met Andreas on the Tadjik/Chinese border, together we set off across Tibet.. After our first 'proper' pass (4950m) we sat and enjoyed some great food in the small village of Mazar. As we studied the map we discovered we weren't far away from K2.. It would be about a 3-day detour to go and take a picture of this big BIG mountain.. Could we do it? We went for head or tails, but since there's only notes in Chinese money that didn't work. So we just went. Instead of turning left to Ali we turned right on a hobbely, rocky road direction Pakistan. As we got closer this great idea formed. We would cycle up the pass from where we should be able to see the mountain (nearly 5000m), then we'd set up camp and climb the nearest 6000+ peak just to get a better view.. All excited we followed our way just to have our dream shattered at a military post where they wouldn't let us go further. The young soldier-boys giggled a lot and gave us food but no way we could continue They're a bit funny in the border areas. So we turned back and stayed the night in the one-man-village of Bazardara with Imri, the one man. He shared with us his bread and apples and made me wash my feet before going to bed... guess it was nesesary.
