from Steven Hope
Ueli Steck’s Project Himalaya from Mountain Hardwear on Vimeo . Is a mountain really ‘climbed’ until it’s done Alpine? It’s something that’s troubled me for a while, and can’t really take an ascent of Everest seriously until it’s climbed in one push. I hope to see this in my lifetime, but haven’t until now been so excited at the prospect that this might be achieved in the near future. Last I’d heard Ueli Steck had given up the discipline of speed ascents due to the severe danger of it
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from Dream Guides Latest News Blog
The team is once again at Base Camp after what can only be described as an epic rotation on the hill. The team left early on Sunday morning with a 4am breakfast of eggs and toast, this is always quite hard to put down knowing that there is the gruelling trek through the ice fall ahead of us. We were all away by 4.30 and soon we were putting our crampons on at the start of the ice fall. The 1st hour or so is pretty flat and very soul destroying as almost no height is gained. We wound our way through the icy
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from Dream Guides Latest News Blog
The team with the Doctors |The plan has changed. David awoke this morning, and announced that he was going down. David had not slept at all last night, nor the previous night. He explained to us that every time he started to doze off, he felt as if he would stop breathing and then awaken suddenly short of breath. He had an early morning conversation with his roommate, Kenton, and Kenton felt that they should journey across the ridge to Periche to visit the Himalayan Mountain Clinic. As this plan of action
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