Uitgeteld terug in basecamp

1500m lager en 5u later dan de top

August 15th 2007
(voor Nederlands, scroll naar beneden) Hola, Our first alpine ascent is a fact! And it even brought us over 6000m. Huayna Potosi (6088m) means "young mountain" in Aymara (the language of the Bolivian Indians), and this glaciated summit towers high above the Altiplano. Day 1 training session on the nearby glacier At the hut / base camp (4750m) we get (a mixed group of 8 European ... read more

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more

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please visit Patagonian Dreams Blog We have a fetish for Patagonia and the Arctic. We’ve been on long-time trekking/hiking/backpacking trips into Patagonia (7 months in total), been on multiple (winter) trips to northern Scandinavia, hiked for 2 months in the Canadian Rockies and Alaska, explored some of the largest glaciers in the Karakorum mountains of Pakistan, climbed some 5000′ers and 6000′ers in the Central Andes of Peru and Bolivia, and recently lost ourselves on a wild trek on the eastern coast of Greenland… We prepare ours... full info

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