1998: Balti porters remove trash from K2 basecamp. The Baltis have removed a staggering 20,000+ pounds of garbage from Karakoram basecamps since 1997 at a fraction of the cost of a foreign "cleanup" expedition. Photo: Greg Mortenson BACK TO: [HOME] [DISPATCHES] © 1999 The Zone Network. All rights reserved.

Karakoram '99