$2,500 for the flight, landing in Lahore, one could cab it the thousand miles around the Indian peninsula until reaching Balakot. The town was destroyed 4 years ago by an earthquake but you still might be able to buy a horse or even a yak to continue on through the mountain ranges. Obviously you would need some serious connections or money in order to get a helicopter out here and even then you might still get taken. So be it seven days on rugged terrain on horseback til you reach the breathtaking slopes of K2 where it all began, but why? Yes it will humble you and make you think, but what will you think about? There is no solution, not one that you can fix or run from or purchase or e-vite or google or blog. Everything is wrong. You came all this way and it didn't make any difference or prove anything. Maybe it never happened, or there was no reason for any of it. Maybe you'll just stay here now.

Mountains and the angry sea. They are beautiful because they are mysterious and magical. They simply exist in their glory, nothing can tame them. You can mock them, scorn them, try to knock them down or dry them up, but they will always be, and the harder you try to conquer them, the more likely it is that you will destroy yourself.