15 hours in the "Death Zone": Alex Gavan summits alone Cho Oyu and makes it safely back to Advanced Base Camp.
On October 2nd I was finding myself high up on camp 2 ready for my summit bid. I choose to start the summit push ...
Storm has finally stopped on the evening of september 25th but I still remained in ABC since the snow did not settled yet and the slopes on Cho Oyu were still under huge avalanche hazard. I'm talking about the section above the ...
It already snows for 5 continuous days here in the very core of the himalayas. No stop. No signs for the better. Just the hope. The weather forecasts from khatmandu, beijing and europe are contradictory. We cannot see the ...
Yaks are nasty animals. And so the yak herders. Sometimes to get with all your gear to the base of a climb can be a real challenge by itself...We got from BC into ABC in two days with a middle camp in between at 5400m.
It was ...
It is big.it is really big. it is impressive...it is Huge!...and I love it:)). I had the first glimpse of Cho Oyu yesterday morning (September 4th) while in Tingri, a tipical Tibetan village at 4300m alt.
The 245 km travel ...
...we got a little bit slower as the air got a little bit thinner here in Nyalam, at 3700m since our acclimatisation process hardly begun. Now is September 2nd and we are having a day rest since yesterday we had our first ...
Well, tomorrow morning we will begin our 6 days trip to reach the Chinese Base Camp in Tibet at around 5000m altitude and after 4 more days Advanced Base Camp (ABC) at 5700. Meanwhile, we will spend time at intermediate altitudes ...
