Latest Alpinist.com newsAlready 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…
Arnold reports in live about the summit
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…
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…
The whole team summited this morning! Listen to the Live report from camp 2.
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…