Antarctic Mountaineering – Sea kayaking – Zodiac Cruises and more! From the 14th of December to the 11th of January I will be working off a ship – MV Plancius – taking guests climbing each day. We change locations daily and get to see incredible wildlife and experience the beauty and majesty of the Antarctic […]
With NZ currently in the grip of a strong disturbed westerly flow its feeling good to be re-gathering after returning from Nepal and the Cholatse Expedition rather than rushing back into the mountains to work.
We went back to camp 1 again to acclimatise some more and the do a bit of a reccy on the Rock step that leads to the SW ridge proper. Once we’d done that we were able to descend back to BC for 2 days rest before heading back up to make our summit push. […]
The Glacier leading up to the Headwall is very slow moving – any crevasing is mostly open and easily seen. The team were re-introduced to fixed line techniques – abseil techniques with heavy packs and once again moved up and down the glacier to acclimatize and tag Camp 1 Images – Camp 1 – Rock […]