King Trench route leads from base camp at Quintino Sella glacier (2800 m / 9200 ft) through King Trench to King Col (4100 m /13400 ft). From there through Prospector’s Pass (5500 m / 18000 ft) to the summit plateau with a length of 5 miles. One high camp is necessary on the summit plateau. Altogether on the way to the summit it needs 5 high camps.

The climbing altitude difference (between base camp and summit) is over 3400 m / 11100 ft, at a distance of about 25 km /16 miles. Because of often bad visibility in navigation GPS and wands are necessary and are used.

The camps, we used with altitude specification:
 

base camp	2.790 m   /   9150 ft	on  Quintino Sella Glacier
camp 1	3.310 m   /  10850 ft	in the middle of the King Trench
camp 2	4.115 m   /  13500 ft	at King Col
camp 3	4.715 m   /  15470 ft	.
camp 4	5.200 m   /  17060 ft	below the Prospector Pass