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For K2, it is usually the Pakistani porters from Gilgit-Baltistan: https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/pakistani-porters-the-unsung-masters-of-the-mountains-1753

For K2, it is usually the Pakistani porters from Gilgit-Baltistan: https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/pakistani-porters-the-unsung-masters-of-the-mountains-175391 https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/pakistani-porters-the-uns... > Their names are just usually dropped when talking about it, which is a shame. Reminds me of Amir Mehdi's story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Mehdi#K2_(1954) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Mehdi#K2_(1954)

saiya-jin 6y ago
Very few locals historically went above base camp, it used to be really tricky to even get them to deliver goods to base camp. They were afraid, always broke previously agreed contract, tried to negotiating extra money. Plus had ridiculously bad clothing/shoes for such an environment. Basically every expedition in Pakistan in the past struggled with this, and they even had an additional budget for this.