Base of Cesen Route – 5100 meter Frippe’s voice over radio static, “I’m leaving Camp 2 now. I’ll leave the radio on. Watch for me.” From the avalanche plain at the bottom of the route I looked through the 20x lens of the video camera, straining to pick up any sort of movement, even a [...]

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Camp 3 – 7000m 8:00 a.m., -20 F, winds gusting over 60 kph. Despite my 8000-meter down jacket and neoprene facemask I’m chilled to the bone and my hands are blocks of ice. I need to get moving. Frippe locks into his skis and edges confidently into the maelstrom, dropping straight into unexplored terrain. I’ll [...]

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Camp 1 – 5900m We awoke to the sound of driving wind and blowing snow battering the walls of the tent. It wasn’t the kind of storm that made you start scratching out a will on the side of your water bottle but unzipping the tent door a crack and getting blasted by spindrift did [...]

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K2 Base Camp – 5020 meter I’m just about to fall asleep when I hear a sharp crack from the ice directly beneath me. I’m not a huge fan of crevasses and a something like this would normally send me flying from the tent like I was shot from a cannon. But tonight I’m just [...]

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Här kommer den första videobloggen från extremskidåkaren Fredrik Ericsson och hans kompanjon Trey Cook. Läs deras rapporter. 15 juni 10 juni 9 juni Gillar du detta? Dela::Tweet

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Laila Peak – 5700 meter 8:30am. The pit, in and of itself, was inconclusive. When pressured with the kind of force that would represent a skier executing a silky smooth jump turn, a layer did, in fact, release but it wasn’t the kind of sheer that shrinks your cojones and sends you tiptoeing for the [...]

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Lovely Laila Laila Peak Camp 1: 5140 meter. The courtship has begun. Yesterday we made a reconnaissance mission up the Gondogoro glacier to catch a glimpse of the lovely face of Laila Peak. It was a perfect day—blazing sun, not a breath of wind, not a cloud in the sky. Frippe and I were the [...]

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Dalsanpa Camp – 4180m (13,714 ft) Base camp. It seemed as though it took us forever but we’re finally here. Two days ago we followed a line of 23 porters as they left the terraced fields of Hushe behind and headed into the magnificent Karakorum mountains. Smiling children followed us out of town chanting the [...]

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1 June 2010 – Skardu, Pakistan (2316m) Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me. Not sure how much of a fiesta we’re going to be able to drum up in this town but my birthday wishes are all in place and I’m super stoked to be here. A couple of days ago we flew [...]

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De senaste veckorna har vi rapporterat en del om Everest. Det har ju nämligen varit säsong för just Everest. Men nu tar ett annat berg över: K2. Extremskidåkaren Fredrik Ericsson påbörjar återigen sitt försök att med skidor klättra och åka skidor utför K2:s branta sida, och det utan syrgastuber på ryggen. Han och kompanjonen Trey [...]

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