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June 12, 2008

Alex Gavan reached Paiju Camp (3100m)

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June 23, 2008

Alex reached Gasherbrum2 Base Camp; four people dead in Gasherbrum 1 and K2

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April 30, 2008

Camp One At 6200m established

In the very morning of April 29 Mihnea and I left our ABC to establish Camp One at 6200m and to spend one night there to help with our acclimatization. Our plan is to have established three high altitude camps at 6200m, 6800m and ...
June 25, 2008

Alex shares his thoughts on his new attempt on G2, Annapurna rescue mission, his successful climb of Makalu and the partnership with Mihnea Radulescu

Gasherbrum 2 Base Camp (5000m) – the story goes on It was a quite long break in writing (but not in updating the website). After all that happened since my Makalu summit and Inaki's passing away, I was just not in the mood to ...
April 27, 2008

Makalu Advanced Base Camp, 5600m

Hello world! YES, we're alive and rockin' hard!...now that we finally solved the communication system challenge we had with our Inmarast device since our arrival in Nepal. Things got really crazy in the last two weeks…and we ...
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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