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Americans bag huge unclimbed peak in Nepal

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 9:11 am
by Cy Kaicener
One of the highest unclimbed peaks in Nepal has now been climbed
http://climbnepal.blogspot.com
http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes ... _in_nepal/

Re: Americans bag huge unclimbed peak in Nepal

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 2:55 pm
by Taco

Re: Americans bag huge unclimbed peak in Nepal

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 6:18 pm
by MikeSash
"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!

Re: Americans bag huge unclimbed peak in Nepal

Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 7:54 pm
by hvydrt
great trip report. how about that ledge they "slept" on!! :shock:

Re: Americans bag huge unclimbed peak in Nepal

Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 8:54 am
by Cy Kaicener
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