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 ...
June 29, 2014
The best view is from HERE @ Camp2/6240m in Broad Peak, Karakoram.
June 27, 2014
Laurentiu Anghel, Happy Birthday from Camp 1/5600m in Broad Peak/Karakoram! Consume Zagorka in moderation, trad climb in excess! Ayeee!
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 ...
June 22, 2014
Passing yesterday by the Great Trango Tower (6286m), one of the first things I felt was getting me back to Galen Rowell's book title: "Into the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods".
June 19, 2014
Getting our equipment from Askole (almost 3000m) to the Broad Peak Base Camp (4950m), meaning about 100 km of trek, requires logistics project management to the fullest, in the world's most extensively glaciated high mountain terrain.
June 18, 2014
Arrived in Askole. 110 km, 13 hours rough mountain drive. Landslides, bridge broken, rock falls, strenuos repair work. A bit challenging.
