The Independent . No one has ever scaled Baltoro, its peak is guarded by lakes and deeply crevassed glaciers. So perhaps it doesnt matterwhether you stand at its foot or in Worcester, Massachusetts—you can dream equally well of the climb up along thehostile mountains, where the hair-poised snow-slides shiver. The photograph on the next page illustrates it even better. // it icerent for the war and the high cost of living and aneveryday job and your family (plus any of the other insur-mountable difficulties that may fit your case) youd probably setout at once to achieve this super-vacation in t


The Independent . No one has ever scaled Baltoro, its peak is guarded by lakes and deeply crevassed glaciers. So perhaps it doesnt matterwhether you stand at its foot or in Worcester, Massachusetts—you can dream equally well of the climb up along thehostile mountains, where the hair-poised snow-slides shiver. The photograph on the next page illustrates it even better. // it icerent for the war and the high cost of living and aneveryday job and your family (plus any of the other insur-mountable difficulties that may fit your case) youd probably setout at once to achieve this super-vacation in the Indian Hima-laya. However, the Himalayas arent exactly open to tourists thisyear, so Jieres the next best thing! The photograph on the pre- ceding page and this telephoto of Broad Peak at sunset ui(\taken by Vittorio Sella during an exploration of the KarakordHimalaya. The glacier on Broad Peak is darkened by the shadi iof K2, the second highest mountain in the world. Broad Peakiover 27,000 feet high; none of the adventuring mountaineers w\have tried to climb it have even come near succeeding, for the \


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