Hiking Up the Ultar Meadow

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This was by far the most dangerous hike for me.

In the morning Noriyoshi, Calvin and me went up the Ultar Meadow through the Baltit village and orchard according to the map drawn by Hiroshi. After follwing the canal, there was a small trail along the sheer drop face of mountain, having vertigo I felt dizzy when looking down and tried leaning towards the mountain side. After the trail, we could not find a proper way up, therefore started climbing on the rocky slopes, many a time I felt like dropping into the deep abyss, and inched towards the possible safer direction, with loose rocks bouncing and rolling down. With much effort we managed to climb up to another trail, by looking down, I did not know how we climbed up and wondered how to go down later. We kept missing the right track and had to climb up again and again. Finally we reached the Ultar Meadow at 14:00.The 6000m Lady Finger, Ultar I and 7388m Ultar II were just right in front, we rested for a while and went on to see a waterfall and the tomb of Hasegawa, who died while climbing the Ultar mountains. At 16:00 we went back down but again missed the right trail, going down on a steep slope, at one time almost found nowhere to proceed as there was a cliff below, the rocks were mostly loose with many thorny plants around, which made it very difficult to climb through and slide down, finally we found a section where the cliff was not too high up and thus we slid our way down from there.

It was just nice to walk on a flat steardy road.