How was climbing on Broad Peak?
I only climbed to 21,000′ or camp 2 but I can safely say that every person on our team was surprised about the difficulty of Broad. The walk from BC to the start of the route was 2 hours. The route started with a several hundred foot scree climb and then maintained a steady 45 to 60 degree angle all the way to the col at around 25,500′ It was steep and never let up. All the camps were on at least 30 degree angles. In 2006, the snow started to melt out near the base resulting in mushy conditions and revealed rock hard frozen ice below camp 1. Near the summit, the snow was crusty and deep which exhausted the early summiteers due to trail breaking.
