Jean-Christophe Lafaille 2003: Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak
 

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In French Jean Christophe Lafaille

Translations by Fabienne for EverestNews.com

Hello! A small correction on the altitude of the camps. Camp 1 is installed at 4900m. Camp 2 at 6000m.

Jean-Christophe went down again from camp 2 this morning. June 6 he slept at camp 1. He installed his camp 2 at 6000m yesterday the 7, during the afternoon, he went a little more above camp 2 until 6200/6300m with Ed Viesturs. He went down again from camp 2 to the base camp this morning because it started to snow. 

Base camp is beautiful and flowered nothing to see with the one of Dhaulagiri nor of the already visited! He has good mood and motivation. He is in good shape, incredibly quickly recovered from the tiredness of his preceding and difficult ascent to the Dhaulagiri! The forecaster weather, Yann, confirm to me what I was thinking about, wind in prospect, crenels weather courts with a weakening wind around 60/70 km/h at the top, which remains high to consider the summit. It is also necessary to take into account the temperature. At the top, covered from the wind, the thermometer oscillates between -25°/- 30°, if we add the 70 km/h of wind and we double almost these already low values, with the altitude that made not badly of handicaps in prospect. The total speed of the wind at 8125m is of 100 km/h. When there is no wind, the clouds can approach the Nanga Parbat, they cause a disturbance which gives snow and grésil! Tomorrow, the weather is bad. Jean-Christophe will remain at the base camp. He will decide to continue after having consulted the bulletin weather of the day. Translations by Fabienne for EverestNews.com

Best regards, Katia Lafaille.

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