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| Photo by Jakob Urth. K2 - taken on my way to Gasherbrum 2 in 2008 |
I met Rob during an expedition in Nepal some years ago. He was very determined to climb Everest.
He succeed that in 2009 but he suffered frostbite in many toes!
Now he is back and stronger than ever.....
I really hope he is successful and especially he comes back in one piece.
Rob has postet this on his blog 16/6:
"We’re still in Skardu for now and are hoping to leave tomorrow (the day after at the latest). We’re waiting for our liaison officer from the Pakistani army to arrive and accompany us to base camp. This is a politically sensitive area in Pakistan, not that far from China and India and there are a number of checkpoints to pass on the way to the base camps. Apparently, we need an officer to make sure we are up to what we are supposed to be up to (mtn climbing and insurgent neutralization).
A couple expedition notes: There are no other expeditions climbing our planned route on K2 this year (the Cesen), so we will be climbing the more popular Abruzzi Spur route. There will be 5 other teams on that route, which will make route fixing much easier.
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