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Manaslu 2003 featuring Dan Mazur: Dispatch
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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 has
just finish his Pumori expedition and will is headed
to Manaslu, see here for this
last dispatch from the Pumori expedition.
Dispatch One:
Well, Dan and Lakpa and Shera made it to Manaslu
basecamp in the sunshine. Its a very tough walk up
here from Samagaon, where the helicopter landed. Its
great to be here, and now our Manaslu team is united!
Tomorrow morning we plan to go to camp 1.
Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Two:
"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.
Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Three:
Well, today was an eventful day, with quite a few
weather changes throughout the day. It started out
snowing very hard in the morning, and then became hot
and was still snowing, then in the late afternoon the
weather cleared 90% and we were able to see the
mountain and surrounding environs clearly for the
first time since yesterday morning. Repairs to our
basecamp are complete and we faired pretty well
overall, only losing a few tents in two night's ago's
storm....
Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Four:
4/27/2003: After another small storm last night, this
morning brought well-appreciated sunshine (great for
doing laundry and teaching Sherpas to ski). However,
at the moment it looks like another big storm is
moving in from Tibet. The other part of our team,
which arrived two weeks before us has been here longer
than any of the teams on the Mt. and are up at Camp 2
waiting to move up to High Camp and then hopefully for
a summit bid. Arnold Coster is climbing on that team,
and if he summits he will be the first Dutch national
to summit Manaslu.
Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Five:
During the last steep
section we were hit by a number of small avalanches,
however, one significant slide took Jeff for the ride
of his life.
Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Six:
This is a dispatch from Bruce Gierszal...Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Seven:
Round Two clearly goes to Manaslu. Check here for the full
dispatch.
Dispatch Eight:
We wanted to mention
some interesting news that Arnold Coster has a good
chance of being the first Dutch person to reach the
summit of Manaslu, with the weather getting better
now...
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dispatch.
Dispatch Nine:
May 12th, Dear EverestNews.com, This is Wil Seelye
writing from the Manaslu expedition: Today dawned
bright and clear, Jeff, Shane, Taylor, Arnold (trying
to me the first Dutch person to reach the summit of
Manaslu), and Bruce left camp #1 early heading for
camp #2. The Sherpas are ahead of them and are
searching for the equipment cache that is between camp
#1 and camp #2, so far no luck.
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dispatch.
Dispatch Ten:
We are just back in basecamp after a long period of
very challenging and exciting climbing out on the
mountain. Sorry its been so long since we have
written. We have a huge story to tell...
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dispatch.
Dispatch 11:
I just made the Kathmandu - Bangkok flight by a few
hectic minutes. It wasn't looking that good at 10:30
am this morning,
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dispatch.
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