Looking stuff right there. The way the sunlight is breaking through the mist gives this photo a very surreal fantastic feeling.Watching that I can only imagine the mines of Moria stretching out underneath the peaks.Well you would think that, naturally. But they only operate between 2 &3 on the second Thursday of every month. And they have a long waiting list...
It's a fair point, but bear in mind that the Karakorum are about a thousand times more hardcore than any mountains in LOTR. It's easy to misunderstand scale in this pic since we have no real frame of reference, but I can assure you, what's pictured is probably ten or 15 times larger than anything seen in the LOTR movies, and it's only one ridge on a much larger massif that is itself only one of an entire group that feeds the Baltoro glacier, which is also fucking huge. Even getting to the Karakorum requires upwards of a week's trekking on the Baltoro, sometimes more, and for much of the year it is virtually uninhabitable by humans.
I causally scroll past most photos on unless I think they will have a truly unique element. There's just too many damn photos. As a self proclaimed photographer I enjoy Flickr. The wold of photos and photography is far too diluted. I struggle to get visitors to my webpage or at least give me feedback through reddit. It sucks because photos like these of OPS, maybe some of mine, and hundreds of other that have shots on the same caliber as op that simply fall through the cracks. Well maybe not this caliber, this photos is award winning. That gentle light that flows through the clouds and lands on the peak of the smaller mountain makes this photo. I guess end rant.
When they were originally marked by British Explorers they listed K1 and K2 as that, intending to ask the locals the names they used for the mountains. K2 didn't have a name as it wasn't visible from local villages so it ended up keeping K2 until it was eventually named but by then the naming scheme had stuck.
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