Americans bag huge unclimbed peak in Nepal

Cy Kaicener · Post by **Cy Kaicener** » Mon May 04, 2009 9:11 am

One of the highest unclimbed peaks in Nepal has now been climbed
http://climbnepal.blogspot.com
http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes ... _in_nepal/

Post by **Taco** » Mon May 04, 2009 2:55 pm

Niftay.

Also of interest: http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes ... _in_maine/

MikeSash · Post by **MikeSash** » Mon May 04, 2009 6:18 pm

"We made every rappel by pulling the rope through a V-thread, thus leaving absolutely no tat or garbage and no trace of our ascent on the mountain."

Great style!

hvydrt · Post by **hvydrt** » Mon May 04, 2009 7:54 pm

great trip report. how about that ledge they "slept" on!!

Cy Kaicener · Post by **Cy Kaicener** » Tue May 05, 2009 8:54 am

Dougald MacDonald is a great writer who also had interesting reports on Alpinist.com which I hoping will soon be on line in the near future. One of his blogs is http://themountainworld.blogspot.com