Today's been another move up the Baltoro towards Concordia (where the Godwin Austin Glacier meets the Baltoro, and where we'll head north to BC). Much easier day than yesterday - only about 8 miles, but still relatively hard work over this terrain. The first few miles were very tedious up and down over large boulders, but after a while it soon smoothed out into a more gentle trail over scree covered ice. The first of us arrived into Goro 2 camp after about 4 hours, which was good going. The sun had been trying to break through the cloud all morning, and eventually succeeded at about noon, however, this meant that we were quite lucky with a relatively cool temperature to trek in. Fabrizio says that of the 5 times he's done this trek into BC, we've been luckiest with weather this time. It had snowed a little last night, but it hardly settled, so didn't have any effect on us today. The most incredible thing about today has been the view up the valley towards Gasherbrum 4 (7925m), which has been directly in front of us, with it's top just obscured by clouds - yet absolutely massive on the horizon.

The Goro campsite is located in the moraine hillocks on the north side of the Baltoro. At 4345m, we've only gone up about 300m since Ordokas, but this is all vital for the gentle acclimitisation.
Speaking of acclimatisation, we lost our LO (liaison officer) this morning, as he was suffering a fair amount. All expeditions here have to have a Pakistani Army LO due to the fact that we are in a military restricted area (being relatively close to Kashmir, China and Afghanistan). The expedition has to pay for the honour of having an LO accompany us to make sure that we behave ourselves. Our’s, a Major Amjaz from a mechanised Infantry Regiment, had been doing very well on the first few days of the trek, but I think that the effort of yesterday's trek really took it out of him. Although he says that he will return soon, I don't exactly think that he will make it back up the Baltoro. Just in case you think that means we have carte-blanche to behave as badly as we like, I'm sure that the LO of another team will keep an eye on us!

Goro is a really awful campsite - gone are the nice terraces and toilets of the previous camps - welcome to the suck! We're camped on the glacier itself, on a thin coating of scree above the ice. During the day, rivers of meltwater run all throughout the camp, goats are sh**ting in the water supply (although we'll have the last laugh with them), and the porters sh*t all around the camp. Anyone who doesn't get sick here is doing very well. I imagine that Concordia will be very similar, but at least by the time we arrive at BC, we'll be able to make our own camp as nice as possible (no porters staying there).

Not much else to report at the moment - just looking forward to getting to BC. Tomorrow (as long as the weather and visibility is good) we should see K2 for the first time as we reach Concordia. All things being good, we should be in BC by Monday afternoon.
Then the fun will really begin!!