Reiseberichte

AconcaguaUmgekehrt

Aconcagua Challenge Christmas 2003

A second attempt at Aconcagua with Adventure Peaks over Christmas 2003, by the Polish Traverse. Sixteen set out and three summited; Tim turned round on the col above Independencia in wind gusting to 60 mph and a wind chill near −40 °C, and explains why that was the right call.

KilimanjaroUmgekehrt

Kilimanjaro, Machame and the Western Breach, 2003 — a photo journal

Fifteen photographs from Kilimanjaro in 2003: the Machame forest, Senecio trees, the Shira plateau, the Western Breach from Lava Tower camp, the glaciers inside the crater, and the view over the saddle to Mawenzi from Gillman’s Point.

KilimanjaroGipfel erreicht

Kilimanjaro by the Machame route and the Western Breach, October 2003

Nine days on Kilimanjaro in October 2003 by the Machame route and the Western Breach, with a camp inside the crater and Uhuru Peak on 18 October — a day-by-day account, plus 46 photographs of the Breach Wall, the Furtwängler Glacier and the crater.

9 Tage

ElbrusGipfel erreicht

Elbrus from the Barrels, 2003 — a photo journal

Thirteen photographs from a 2003 climb of Elbrus from the Barrels huts: the twin summits from the huts, the cable car, acclimatisation hikes in the Baksan valley, dinner at altitude, and the summit.

AconcaguaGipfel erreicht

Aconcagua by the normal route, January 2003 — a photo journal

Fourteen photographs from a January 2003 climb of Aconcagua’s normal route with Jonathan: Plaza Francia under the South Face, a 24-hour snowstorm at Plaza de Mulas, the Canaleta, and the summit on 25 January.

DenaliGipfel erreicht

Denali West Buttress, May 2001 — the Denali trip for Warchild

HarryTrekker15. Juni 2001

Three weeks on Denali’s West Buttress in May 2001, climbing for Warchild with Jose: skis and sleds up the Kahiltna, the headwall and the ridge to 17,000 ft, a season with a 15 % success rate, and the summit at 8 pm on 16 May as the eighteenth person on top that year.

AconcaguaGipfel erreicht

Aconcagua with Adventure Consultants, February 2001

Ellis Stewart’s journal from Adventure Consultants’ February 2001 expedition under Guy Cotter: camp two beneath the Polish Glacier, a 3.30 am start at −30 °C, the Canaleta, the summit on 12 February — and a descent that taught him the hardest lesson of the climb.

AconcaguaGipfel erreicht

Aconcagua by the Falso de los Polacos, December 2000

HarryTrekker15. Jan. 2001

Eighteen days on Aconcagua with Erik Slot and Don Cook, by the Falso de los Polacos: a broken plane in Amsterdam, the long carry up the Vacas valley, a storm at camp two, and the last climbers of the year on the summit on 31 December 2000. With the pictures and the diary, day by day.

19 Tage

ElbrusGipfel erreicht

To the Summit of Europe: Elbrus, June–July 1999

HarryTrekker1. März 2000

Fourteen days in the Caucasus in the summer of 1999 with Niall, Saskia and a Russian team: Moscow, the Baksan valley, acclimatising on Cheget, the Priut 11 hut, and the summit of Europe at 5,642 m on 6 July — with a call home from the top.

14 Tage