In May of 2010 I led an expedition for Jagged Globe to Mera and Island Peak via the Mera la and the Hinku and Honku valleys and the Amphu Labtsa. It was a fantastic trip with a great crew – Enjoy the image gallery and trip report from the trip. Report Name Mera and Island […]
The expedition is now over and we’re all down and back in kathmandu. I’ll write up a full trip report soon but suffice to say that we almost made the summit – however deep loose snow conditions made for very slow climbing with exceedingly poor anchors. We made a 4 day push to get everything […]
Report from Mal who walked half way to Phortse to call and I missed the call by a second! Grrr. Woke up this morning to 6 text messages with the update. They’ve been on the hill for a few days and now back down for a rest before a summit push. They have already climbed […]
Friday 9th October: The team have arrived at Gokyo after 7 days of bad weather – rain, wind and and snow above 4000 metres most days. Today the boys climbed up to made it up to Gokyo Ri (5,356m) and Mal flew his speed wing back down making a somewhat unplanned landing in Gokyo lake! […]