Winter 2015 – It’s already looking exciting! With the recent cold temps and snowfalls blasting the South Island of NZ, quite a few people have been out playing the snow and thoughts are already turning to the ski and heli-ski season. It looking like it will be a super busy season already and if […]
Expedition Outline In the pre-monsoon season of 2015 Vertical Resources is running a 32 day expedition to Nerikha Peak and Lobuje East as part of a Technical Expedition Course (TEC). This TEC is aimed at giving you basic to intermediate skills to run your own simple expedition or be a member on a more technically […]
During the month of October, 10, almost complete strangers came together to make an attempt on a 7246m peak in a remote region of Nepal – The Lower Dolpo. Joining us were another 11 Nepali Staff. These men had worked together in the past but to us they were also strangers. On the 5th of […]
An adventure is an activity with an unknown outcome …… If this definition is true then we’ve been having a HUGE adventure. By now you may have heard that the central himalaya’s bore the brunt of another tropical storm and that larghe number of people were killed or are missing in the Annapurna and Dolpo […]