Alex is back in Broad Peak Base Camp now, since July 9th, afternoon.
Alex Gavan and Gavin Vickers left the Base Camp for Camp 2 on July 6th. Between Camp 1 and Camp 2 they encountered blizzard conditions.
On July 7th, ...
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, ...
Well, it's already too long since we're waiting for the good weather in the BC. But that is a part of the high altitude waiting "game". We'll try to seize the first opportunity to go up. In the meantime we sorted out the gear we ...
