Thanks for following along with my trip. Its great to be back in Salt Lake. Im back in my routine here of backcountry ski and ice climbing guiding. Probably anyone that is still checking in on this blog is wanting to see some pictures of the adventure. So some of those from the first half of the trip will go up in this post, I will make another blog post for the second half of the trip (it takes a while to load media to the blog).
So Em did a great job of relaying messages of the big events of the trip. Also Hellyhansen will be doing more posts on our trip as well. Probably over the next couple weeks those should pop up at hellyhansen.com/news
So I'll start with a video of driving from Kathmandu to where we started trekking in Gongar. This video was shot in the town of Charikot. It gives some good views of the people, buildings, but most of all traffic/pedestrian patterns.
After we arrived in Gongar we started walking. It took four days to reach the upper village of Na. Then the next day Matt and I went climbing and his hand was broken from a rock that fell about 150 meters. More info on this can be found on the Hellyhansen site. After we got Matt set up with a crew to get him back to Kathmandu Tino and I hiked back up valley and began climbing. We established a new route up a 19,000 ft summit in the Yalung valley pictured below.
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| Northwest face of point 5766 |
West face of point 5766 Tino and I climbed about 800 feet of unclimbed rock here
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| Pitch one of the west face rated M4X |
The next day we climbed three new ice and mixed climbs at 17,000 ft.
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| Tino climbing acclimatization station WI4+ M5+ |
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| Ice wall we established new routes on |
Next post will show photos and video of the second half of the trip.
Hope you all had a merry christmas, and wishing you all a fun and safe new years eve tomorrow!
Thanks for your interest,
Alan
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