K2 2019: The Braldu Valley

One of several washouts that occured overnight after our jeeps came up to meet us from Skardu. A smaller washout than this kept the road over Dunmail Raise here in Cumbria closed for months after Storm Desmond, requiring the Army and all sorts of heavy machinery and hundreds of thousands of pounds to put right. Twenty random men, one pick-axe, one broken spade and a section of snapped-off electricity post and this was cleared and a new section of road in place in less than three hours!! Pakistan Zindabad!
The Braldu Valley

One of several washouts that occured overnight after our jeeps came up to meet us from Skardu. A smaller washout than this kept the road over Dunmail Raise here in Cumbria closed for months after Storm Desmond, requiring the Army and all sorts of heavy machinery and hundreds of thousands of pounds to put right. Twenty random men, one pick-axe, one broken spade and a section of snapped-off electricity post and this was cleared and a new section of road in place in less than three hours!! Pakistan Zindabad!