Archive for ‘2011 Baruntse and Mera Peak’

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Nov13

Kathmandu revisited (door Jan van den Bos, in Dutch)

by Arnold on November 13th, 2011 at 9:53 pm
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Zoals ik hoopte zijn we gisteren zonder enig probleem met een vliegtuigje weer terug gekomen. Weer even wennen, een drukke stad met straten, auto’s, motoren en eeuwig getoeter, na bijna 4 weken in de bergen. Geen tent, donzen kleding en slaapzak, geen klimspullen, het is niet anders: back to normal life. OmOm ook alvast te […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov03

Verslag van Jan van den Bos over de top

by Arnold on November 3rd, 2011 at 9:46 pm
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Dag volgers, Nou, de toppogingen zijn allemaal afgelopen, al dan niet met succes. Eindresultaat is dat van onze 16 deelnemers er 7 de top gehaald hebben. En dat ik daarbij was! We gingen de 31e naar kamp 1, en al snel bleek dat er plannen ontstonden om de volgende dag niet naar kamp 2 te […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov03

Summit Days on November 1th and 2nd!

by Arnold on November 3rd, 2011 at 5:24 pm
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Already one day before the official summit day 5 climbers reached the summit of Baruntse. Whereas the main part of the expedition moved from camp I to camp II, the climbers pursued the so called “swiss solution”: They started early form camp I and skipped camp II. So they avoided a second night high on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Nov02

Team 1 Summits Baruntse!

by Arnold on November 2nd, 2011 at 9:12 pm
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Arnold reports in live about the summit

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Oct31

Baruntse Summit Push

by Arnold on October 31st, 2011 at 9:38 pm
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Today we set off for our summit push. Unfortunately Alain, Erich and Mikko decided not to join us. I am in Camp 1 at 6100 M now with 13 members. Tonight our first group, Jan, Markus and Richard, will set off at about 2 am. They will try to summit direct from Camp 1, all […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct25

All members and staff summited Mera Peak!

by Arnold on October 25th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
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This morning (night) our staff woke us at 12 with tea and porridge. We all left high camp at 2 o’clock. The weather was calm and suprising warm. Only close to the summit we enqountered some winds. Everbody managed to summit between 6 and 8 in the morning. Read below what Vivian and Jan have […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct23

rope training

by Arnold on October 23rd, 2011 at 5:29 pm
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This morning the sunshine on my tent woke me up! Our Mera peak base camp is really at a good spot. Nobody here, only us! After breakfast we left for the glacier nearby to do some rope training. Our Sherpa’s went ahead already to fix some lines. It’s a nice little ice cirque with for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct23

Mera La Crossing

by Arnold on October 23rd, 2011 at 8:22 am
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After a snowy day yesterday, today stated off sunny and nice. Although the trail was covered with a couple of centimeters off fresh snow, walking wasn’t too difficult. The route follows the glacier moraine until you hit the snow cover on the pass. From here you have to climb a little steeper on top off […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct22

Hello from Tak

by Arnold on October 22nd, 2011 at 1:27 am
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Today we woke up with a fresh amount off snow, all night it had been snowing and it didn’t look like if it would stop soon. So I decided to stay in Khare and not cross the Mera La today. Specially for our porters who don’t have the same equipment as us this would be […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Oct20

Update 20 October 2011 – Mera/Baruntse

by Arnold on October 20th, 2011 at 5:15 pm
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Good afternoon to those of you unfortunate enough to know mw…. Viv here. Today started significantly better than yesterday, at least for my husband and me. Our morning wake up call (a Sherpa delivering us coffee in bed (or rather in sleeping bag and tent)) was far more civilised than my opening line to Andrew […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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