Concordia (Karakoram)

Concordia is a site in Pakistan Karakoram range, in the Baltistan region, marking the confluence of the Baltoro Glacier and the Godwin-Austen Glacier at an elevation of about 4,691 meters. It functions primarily as a base camp for mountaineering expeditions to K2 and other nearby peaks, and is also a destination for trekkers, offering views of some of the highest mountains on Earth where the two glaciers meet. The name was given by the English mountaineer Aleister Crowley during a 1902 attempt on K2, after a similarly named glacial confluence in the Swiss Alps, and the site is reported to have first been reached by Robert Lerco in 1890, followed by William Martin Conway in 1892. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/