Much like with childbirth, you wouldn't climb another 8,000m peak, if you failed to forget the trauma of conditioning for an ascent. Those interior tears that heal with time but when pulled again, they bring back fears of not making it and many questions of the raison-d'être … [Read more...]
Expedition Journal
Easter on Everest
Processions of yaks and somber men with heads covered in cloaks surrounded by awe-inspiring cathedrals. Long and tiring pilgrimage journey to see a miracle. Fiery gales that pick up stones and humans and throw them mercilessly to the ground. It was only fitting to return … [Read more...]
GRITTY MAKALU
I first saw MAKALU in a parking lot of the Chamonix's ice rink … As in red dilapidated sign adorning a grim grey building of ENSA's dormitory… Standing next to PUMORI, another scarface high-rise tower. I gathered it was a mountain... somewhere far. That was 8 years ago … [Read more...]
Sky-running Gargoyles
'The yaks broke free and escaped last night'...Hmmm, that was not planned. Standing in front of 200kg of gear and duffel bags I had hard time imagining an 'escape act' from a trio of these rotund and phlegmatic creatures... but there it was the very first crux of our first … [Read more...]
The Road Travelled
Cholatse may have been an odd choice for an acclimatisation peak on our way to do a first ascent of Kangchung Shar. This remarkable summit is a formidable objective on its own. Rarely climbed it stands proudly in spitting distance from Everest. Novice to … [Read more...]
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