Cho Oyu 2010: Climbing high on steak and kidney pie

November 28, 2010 Trip reports 8000m peaks, acclimatisation, altitude sickness, cho oyu, everest, expedition food, himalayas, jagged globe, kathmandu, lhasa, manaslu, nepal, potala palace, shegar, shigatse, tibet, tibetan mountaineering association 7 Comments

Cho Oyu 2010: Climbing high on steak and kidney pie

The story of Cho Oyu, autumn 2010 While we live in a society which offers us a huge amount of choice over what we do, for the bigger events the wheel of life more often than not turns in a

Baruntse post mortem: bad luck or bad decision-making?

November 14, 2010 Trip reports 8000m peaks, adventure peaks, baruntse, chewang nima sherpa, cho oyu, everest, false summit claims, frostbite, karakoram, kathmandu, lukla, mark dickson, nepal, sandy allan, summitclimb 4 Comments

Baruntse post mortem: bad luck or bad decision-making?

Mountaineering can be a frustrating business and exceptional weather conditions across the Karakoram and Himalayas has made this year one of the most frustrating in recent times for high altitude climbers, with a hugely reduced number of summits on all