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April 7, 2008

Alex Gavan and Mihnea Radulescu ready to leave for Kathmandu

On Thursday, April 10th, Alex and Mihnea will fly to Nepal. The guys will meet directly in Kathmandu, Alex flying from Bucharest and Mihnea from London.
June 29, 2008

Climbing up Camp 2 aborted due to bad weather; Vlado Plulik supposedly lost on Broad Peak

We had to give up our intention to climb up the mountain and establish Camp Two at 6400m due to bad weather; and the forecast seems to stay bad till next Tuesday at least… In a way all these long days spent in Base Camp were good ...
June 30, 2008

Alex Gavan discussing the situation on G2 with Marius Vintila live on radio Guerrilla

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July 7, 2008

Camp Two established; next, summit push

We have finally managed to set up the first two camps up the mountain and came down from Camp Two to Base Camp yesterday at midday, just the moment the weather got bad. Camp One is at about 8km distance from Base Camp ( GPS ...
July 8, 2008

Alex is sharing with Marius Vintila the story of the last days on the mountain and the next steps

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July 9, 2008

False Summits. True Vanities.

"Great things are done when Men and Mountains meet, This is not done by jostling in the street." (William Blake)   I think the mountains should be a space of freedom and of purity. And of the elevation of the soul. Tired ...
July 10, 2008

Alex Gavan about the tomorrow summit push live on Radio Guerrilla.

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July 13, 2008

Still in Base Camp; summit push aborted due to bad weather

Well... we are still in Base Camp after we aborted our Saturday evening intention to start our summit push. The next try should have been this evening but the last night incoming snowfall made us again change our ...
July 20, 2008

Too much wind.Too much snow.Too much danger. Too much unpredictability. Too much pain.

"the voice in my head says love is the distance between you and what you love whether you love what you love or live in divided ceaseless revolt against it what you love is your fate" (Frank Bidart) It's over for this ...

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