Latest Alpinist.com newsHey everyone Fergal Savage here from summit climb autumn expedition greetings from Cho Oyu Advanced base camp. So after a eventful few days out on the mountain we are finally back here for much needed rest and will travel to Chinese border tomorrow and on to Kathmandu from there’re most teams have left the mountain […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After a hard day the whole team is back in ABC. Tomorrow is the last day, packing and sorting stuff that came down from the mountain. Listen to the live report.
The whole team summited this morning! Listen to the Live report from camp 2.
Arnold left 2 messages: Team reports in live part 1 (click here to listen) Hello SummitClimb News, this is Arnold calling from camp 3 for the first time at 7450 metres. We had a nice day today; the weather was very clear with a little bit of breeze, which was good for us as we […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Our team is enjoying our last rest day in Advanced Base Camp, before we go up the hill again. It’s total summit fever madness here, most team are running out of time and also the weather is not great. Lots of teams went up for last desperate push. We decided to hold back a bid […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The longest day, so far. If moving from Camp 1. to Camp 2. (6,400 – 7,100 meters) was seen as an epic, and that day was an absolute epic, than the move from Camp 2. back down to ABC was an epic of Ben Hur proportions! The team was supposed to move to Camp 3. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Team reports in live part 1 (click here to listen) Team reports in live part 2 (click here to listen)
Today we will leave Advanced Base Camp for our summit push. According to the weather forecast from Fugro Geos the next two days we can expect a little more snow, but in the night of the 26th it should clear and better weather should be here. This weather forecast is a huge advantage for me, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The day before yesterday we left camp 1 at 6400m early for our first encounter with the famous ice wall. The ice wall is a 20m ice cliff we had to conquer to reach Camp 2 at 7050m. The lower part of the wall is not so steep, until you reach a gully in the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two days ago we were surprised by an earthquake. Everybody was in the dinning tent when it happened; we were watching “the Hangover” movie. Our tent started shaking heavy; quickly we turned of the movie and the heather. The Advanced Base Camp was surrounded by sound of avalanches and seracs collapsing, but nothing near our […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…