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Manaslu 2003 featuring Dan Mazur
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Manaslu, at 8163 meters, is the eighth highest
peak in the world. It is located in the
west-central part of Nepal, and our team will
climb it by the original route. We will be
climbing during the "spring" or " pre-monsoon"
season, when the hazards of weather and snow and
avalanche are traditionally at their lowest. Dan
Mazur Jeff
Justman will be co-leading this expedition, his
reports are here. |
"WOW,
WHAT A NIGHT (19th April). Earlier in the day we had
climbed up about a thousand feet through the steep ice
fall above Camp 1 (located at 19,000ft.). On the climb
up we found several dragon flies that had been blown
from the warm climate below up onto the ice fall.
Later that night we got to ride out the same storm
that had brought the dragon flies from so far away. At
around noon, we noticed the weather coming in fast and
began to rappel down the fixed lines to our tents. By
nightfall we were in a full-on Himalayan storm. At
first we laughed about the winds bending the tents
over. But by 9:00pm we found ourselves in the eye of a
thunderhead. This, at first, made for an entertaining
light show. But when the poles inside our tent began
to arc and flash with electricity we lost our senses
of humor quite fast. We could not decide if we should
stay in the tent and be fried or jump out of tent and
be blown over to Tibet. Finally, after about twenty
minutes of terror, the fireworks inside and outside
the tent subsided.
Dan,
Taylor, Bill and myself are taking one or two days to
rest here in Base Camp. We will climb back up to Camp
1 and then Camp 2 in a couple days. Well, hope all is
well in Santa Fe and the rest of the world. ~Clay
Clarke"
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