Sheet 07
Markha valley, Ladakh
Grade PD+
KangYatse II
One route in the archive at a time, surveyed and written up by whoever walked it that season. The sheet here is this year’s. Scroll, and the footer walks it with you.
—Summit
—Vertical gain
24 kmRoad head to top
6Climbers a season
01
The line
Bearings and gains read off the sheet
02
The window
184 days · col crossable or notAugust is the widest window and the worst walking. We take the route in the back half of September, on the far right of that strip, when the col is bonier and colder and there is nobody else on it.
03
The load
Per climber · issued at the road headCarried mass—