69 days on Everest, 48 days on Cho Oyu twice, 54 days on the Gasherbrums, 70 Days on Broad Peak & K2 three times and that is just the 8000ers. I may not have summited all of them but i still have ten fingers and ten toes and a really great base camp setup. For [...]
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Living the High Life In Your 8000M Expedition Base Camp
Ama Dablam Clean up Planned for 2012
Sorry for the long hiatus of updates. The trip to Ama Dablam this year was a very complicated and challeSorry for the long hiatus of updates. The trip to Ama Dablam this year was a very complicated and challenging one. Needless to say, my team is all home safely, no injuries and we area all [...]
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Team Arrives in the Sherpa Capital of Namche Bazaar
Greetings from Namche Bazaar! Alex, Samira and I all arrived in the Sherpa capital of Namche Bazaar this afternoon. It was a great day of trekking and height gain up to the wonderful and bustling Sherpa capital of Namche Bazaar. We will spend the next 48 or so hours acclimatizing to the increasingly thin air. Namche Bazaar (also [...]
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Ama Dablam 2011: An amazing flight to Lukla and Trek to Phakding
Hello everyone and thanks for following along with our expedition. Samira, Alex & I flew to Lukla today and have made the 4 hour, downhill trek to Phakding. As always, flying into Lukla is an experience that no one ever forgets. I’ve done it about 15 times now and each time feels like the first. [...]
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Ama Dablam South West Ridge 2011 Expedition Begins
Chris, Samira and Alex are all set to embark on the first anual Ganesh Adventures Ama Dablam Expedition. We will spend our first day together getting acquainted, eating good food and all getting to know each other. We will be spending the next 4 weeks together so lets hope we all get along. The 2011 Expedition [...]
K2 Summit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Update: They did it, fingers crossed for a safe trip down!!!!!!! They are AMAZING! "time 16:35 Gerlinde has reached the summit ridge together with Vassiliy. Maxut and Darek come afterwards." This was on Gerlinde’s website, they are doing it!!!!!! Not long now I am sure Amazing, I wish them the safest return to base camp [...]
North Side going for it tonight?
Update 22/08/11: From Gerlinde’s website it says they want to fix some rope today above C4, then try on Tuesday for the summit….good luck to them up there, I hope they find good conditions!!! They are strong as anything!!!!!!! Well, I am not sure, I dont have direct contact with them, but Explorersweb.com and National [...]
Kathmandu!!!!
So nice to be back in Kathmandu – pizza, beer, ice cream and rain! The rain is good too because it is not so hot. Off to see my very good friends at Cho Oyu Trekking to discuss plans for the next season of guiding as well as Everest for next spring with clients….more on [...]
K2 2011: Off the Baltoro
Out from the Baltoro and infact in Islamabad already. I took a trip up to camp2 and conditions had really gone south with the heat the few days after the summit attempt, hard ice and unconsolidated snow with a bit of rockfall to spice it all up. The conditions on the Basque route reminded me [...]