Alex finished the almost 100km trek back from the Broad Peak Base Camp to Askole. Next is Skardu (by jeep) and than Islamabad. Alex left Base Camp on Sunday, July 27.
At the link below there is a yesterday's TV news on his ...
Bucharest, 29 July 2014
Alex Gavan, a New High Altitude Success: the Broad Peak Summit (8047m)
Climber Alex Gavan, one of Romania’s top performers at high altitude, topped out on July 23, 2014 the Broad Peak summit (8047m) in ...
Being grateful for all your support, good vibes and beautiful thoughts you sent me. Can't thank you enough. Waking up in Broad Peak Base Camp/ 4850m in the morning of July 25th was a very special moment. Being back in the world ...
Alex Gavan topped out Broad Peak (8047m) on July 23, 3.30 p.m., Pakistani time (13.30 Romania's time). It is his sixth 8000m peak climbed without supplementary oxygen and Sherpa support. Alex spent last night in Camp 3 (7040m) ...
The time has come. After a prolonged period of bad weather and much debate over choosing the proper day for reaching Broad Peak summit, July 23rd has been set as the day for the final climb. Boyan Petrov, Mladen Dankov, Ivan ...
All these days, there have been high winds and snowfall at altitude, on Broad Peak. The weather forecast shows there might be a short summit window around July 22nd.
Alex is preparing to launch a summit push together with his ...
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, ...
Alex Gavan and Gavin Vickers left Broad Peak Base Camp early this morning and headed straight to Camp 2.
They intend to spend the night there and then climb up and establish Camp 3 at around 7100m for two more acclimatisation ...
I was getting my blood moving yesterday, by going up the glacier, through the snow fall, to K2 Base Camp, to visit my friends Tamara Lunger, Pawel Michalski and Simone la Terra.
It snowed all night and, in the morning, I heard ...
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 ...
