Simone Moro attempts Nanga Parbat (8125 meters), K2 (8611 meters) and Broad Peak (8047 meters) all in two months!

Dispatch Two: The carriers have gone, blessed peace, but we are completely alone at Nanga Parbat's base camp. There are no other expeditions in sight and the Kazak group will not arrive until tomorrow or day after tomorrow, ahead of Lafaille.  So between cooks and climbers we are just fifteen souls. Fifteen who were startled when an earthquake greeted us just after organizing the camp. The tents have oscillated perceptibly and then an avalanche has been heard, at first hidden by the clouds, and then very visible on the walls of the Mazzeno ridge. Three more avalanches started by the breaking of big seracs have joined the first, making a cloud that blew winds over base camp. Fortunately nothing has moved on the Diamir wall of Nanga Parbat.  All this has spoiled a precious day.

Tomorrow we will place the first material depot at the bottom of the wall, at 4,800 meters, 700 meters above base camp.  We'll also mark the glacier's route to start again the routine of these expeditions.  With the Kazaks we will be 14 working in shifts, without high altitude carriers, but we are a platoon for that matter. Simone

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