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Broad
Peak Winter 2003 Expedition
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Update 1/27/2003:
Silvio phoned today. They reached Concordia and
they found half meters of snow. The weather is
bad, fog and still snowing, Tomorrow some of the
climbers will go to BC with the porters and start
to fix the tents. The rest of material will arrive
(with the weather permission) on the 31st of
January. They are all in good health and anxious
to start the real work...
Photos Silvio Mondinelli
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Update 1/23/2003:
Today Silvio Mondinelli called, tomorrow they will fly
to Paiju by helicopter. This team is made up of only
with 6 climbers and they hope to reach BC for the end
of January.
Dispatches
NAME LIST OF SPANISH
WINTER BROAD PEAK EXPEDITION
Juanito Oiarzabal (Leader)
Juan VALLEJO
Josu BEREZIARTU
Silvio Mondinelli
Fernando LATORRE
Mikel Zabalza
NAME LIST OF SPANISH
TREKKING GROUP
SEBASTIAN ALVARO
EDUARDO MERTINEZ
MANUEL ROJO
MANUEL UBEDA
ALBERTO PRADOS
VICTOR JOSE
There plan is to fly
from Skardu to Paiju by helicopter and from Paiju all
the members and staff of 30 porters trek to base camp
and rest of the equipment will be dropped by
helicopter to Broad peak base camp.
Hopefully they will
start from Skardu on 24th of January, 2003
Expedition will stay
at the base camp around 40 days. The expedition is
organize by Hushe Treks and Tours, Islamabad.
Source:
Asghar
Ali Porik JASMINE TOURS
Department of Tourist Services License #333 http://www.jasminetours.com
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The
local name of Broad peak is Faichan Kangri. The
height of main peak is 8047 meters/26,401ft. It
is called Broad Peak because of its breadth at
the top. Broad
Peak is one of the 8000 meters peaks which
towers above the Concordia at the heart of the
Karakoram range. It lies on the Pakistan/China
frontier between K2 and the Gasherbrum peaks and
was first climbed by four Austrians in 1957,
including Kurt Diemberger and Herman Buhl.
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