Mladen Dankov, Gavin Vickers and Alex Gavan came down to Broad Peak Base Camp (4950m) yesterday morning, within the acclimatisation process. Although the initial plan was to only set Camp 1 (5500m) and spend the night, they ...
Alex Gavan and Gavin Vickers left this morning for their first acclimatisation climb on Broad Peak. Their current plan is to set up Camp 1 at 5600m altitude and spend one night there. Two more acclimatisation camps will be set ...
While acclimatising, each time before setting up for the first time for a big climb, I purposely leave some things to be done into the base camp, and not at home.
For a few good hours I dive into my tent. Sharpening my crampons ...
Monday night I had the first glimpse of Broad Peak from Goro 2
For merely half a minute the clouds parted and all I could see was just the very top. It was a sight belonging rather to the sky than to the earth. Yesterday ...
București, 10 iunie 2014
Alpinistul de altitudine Alex Găvan - o nouă expediție în munții Karakorum pentru a urca vârful Broad Peak (8047m)
Alpinistul Alex Găvan, unul din performerii de top ai României la altitudine extremă, ...
Today we arrived in the remote village of Askole by jeep from Skardu, during a 6 hours, 150 km, wild ride. We are at about 950 km distance from Islamabad and this is the point where tomorrow at 6,30 in the morning we will start ...
If you get through your first day in Pakistan then you shall start thinking that up there, almost 8 km difference in altitude, there are two mountains to be climbed.
We reached Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, on June 13th after a ...
