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Austria Horizont Reisen Everest
2001 Expedition
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EverestNews.com
will present the Austria Horizont Reisen Everest
Expedition. This will be a first for
EverestNews.com in that the expedition will report
dispatches in German and English on the site.
Introduction
in German; English
Team
List in German; English
Leader
Dr.
Stefan Gatt in
German; English
Dispatch
5/6/01
Tashi
Deley! To begin with - sorry for the late dispatch.
The reason is that the solar panel doesn't work as it
is supposed to. But now and in the future it will be
possible to send because I have bought a big solar
panel and batteries in Lahsa to power my laptop. Since
last night we are back in Lahsa. Since our last
dispatch we left Lahsa and reached our base camp
at 5300 m, surrounded by fascinating mountain
scenery. The base camp was situated on hard and grassy
ground amidst big stoneblocks. To the southwest we had
a lesser mountain (6000 meter) and to the northeast
the Nyanchen Thangla mountain-massif rose with its
four summits above 7000 meters.
Because
of bad weather with storms the first six days, we had
to concentrate on establishing our high camp and no
possibility for any summit-attempt.
At
this time both the morale of the group an the
temprature outside to a low. The daily snowfall
and wind in base camp continued. Only the sleeping bag
offered protection against the extreme cold
weather.
Finally
at 29.04 the first climbers under my lead reached the
central summit(7117m) in a storm. At this point the
morale was growing again. The next day the weather was
better and four more climbers reached the summit under
the lead of Theo Fritsche. The mountain must be one of
the harder 7000 meters. The 800 meter high flanks of
the mountain has a gradient of 35-40 degrees and is
very exposed. An error here while climbing with
crampoons can be fatal. Two days later four more
climbers reached the summit under the lead of Pilippe
Perli. Two of the 6000-meters were also climbed.
And
the south-east summit of Nyanchen Thanglha was climbed
by me and my father in an alpine style and the summit
reached at 02.05. This could possible be a first
ascent.
The
summiters:
29.4.: Erich Gatt, Stefan Gatt, Hans Stemmer, Erich
Weitlahner
30.4.: Wolfgang Fasching, Theo Fritsche, Mario Kastner,
Hartmut Stockert
2.5.: Herwig Frisch, Philippe Perlia, Matthias
Respondek, Johann Steinbφck
2.5.: South-east summit: Erich + Stefan Gatt
At 07.05 [May 7th] we are starting on our way to
Everest base camp, and hoping to reach Advanced Base
Camp (6450m) at 11.05 [May 11th].
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