Below Camp 4 – 7800 meter With the summit of K2 rising above us, so close we feel like we could have touched it, Frippe locked into his skis and dropped into the massive 45-degree face that stretches from The Shoulder at 8000 meter to below Camp 3 at 7100 meter. This big, beautiful face [...]

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Nedanför Camp 4/7800 meter I just got a call from Trey. They are at 7800 meter or about 200 meter short of their day’s goal. Apparently there was very little snow covering the crumbly steep rock between three and camp four so the going was more technical, exhausting and slow than they had hoped. When [...]

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Camp 3/7100 meter Today’s call came from 7100 meters elevation or camp three. Trey and Frippe sounded solid, coherent and motivated. Our conversation was brief to save satellite phone costs but they gave me the low down on their day’s climbing. The route from camp two, a snow filled ledge about 3 feet wide, to [...]

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Hi Everyone, Trey asked me to work as their translator for sat phone calls on their summit bid. Trey and I have been climbing together since 1991 and were together on his last attempt on K2 in 2007, on the same route. Here is what he said on his call today. It took them seven [...]

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Why? K2 Base Camp – 5050 meter “Dead man in Camp 2. Bulgarian.” Lakpa’s news was such a surprise we had a hard time believing it. For one thing the last three days of warm sunny days and nights without a breath of wind couldn’t have been more perfect. Base camp had been a virtual [...]

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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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