Walking in its rhythm and naturalness is the closest to all the acts we choose to the acts we don't: to breathing and the beating of our hearts, the other rhythms that direct the rhythm of the walking. Of all the things we learn, it is the most natural, like birds learning to fly, and of all of them the act that becomes the most unconscious. Walking is the only way to measure the rhythm of the body against the rhythm of the land. Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams

K2 (8,611 meters), the world's second tallest mountain, seen from Gondogoro La (5,940 meters) Lukpe Lawo or Snow Lake, one of the world's largest glacial basins seen from Hispar La Paiju Peak (6,610 metres) and Uli Biaho (6,417 metres) along the Baltoro Glacier K-2 Pakistan Hunza Peic