"Great things are done when Men and Mountains meet,
This is not done by jostling in the street."
(William Blake)
I think the mountains should be a space of freedom and of purity. And of the elevation of the soul.
Tired ...
We have finally managed to set up the first two camps up the mountain and came down from Camp Two to Base Camp yesterday at midday, just the moment the weather got bad.
Camp One is at about 8km distance from Base Camp ( GPS ...
We had to give up our intention to climb up the mountain and establish Camp Two at 6400m due to bad weather; and the forecast seems to stay bad till next Tuesday at least… In a way all these long days spent in Base Camp were good ...
Gasherbrum 2 Base Camp (5000m) – the story goes on
It was a quite long break in writing (but not in updating the website). After all that happened since my Makalu summit and Inaki's passing away, I was just not in the mood to ...