May 11, 2012
The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience:
While I am writing this basking in the unseasonably warm sunshine, the Himalayan Experience Base Camp is slowly being dismantled around me. “The last Sherpa loads were carried down from Camp I this morning and now all our equipment is off the mountain,” Russell said feeling relieved that all his Sherpas have been up and down...
May 11, 2012
The reasons why Himalayan Experience is pulling out
Over the past few days, many websites and blogs have reported about Russell Brice’s decision to cancel his expedition, speculating on his reasons. In order to preempt rumours and gossip within the climbing community, here is a list of reasons behind this decision.
Already at the beginning of the season, the Sherpas were saying that...
May 7, 2012
The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience:
The current dangerous conditions in the Khumbu Icefall and on the Lhotse Face have forced Himalayan Experience to abandon its expeditions to Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse this season.
Saturday marked a very hard day for Russell Brice, who gathered his team in the ‘White Pod’ to break the difficult news. He opened the meeting...
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May 4, 2012
The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience:
Dangerous Rockfall Thwarts Everest Expedition
Himalayan Experience has had to put its expedition on hold due to too many hazards on the mountain. “The danger on the Lhotse Face as well as in the Khumbu Icefall is way outside our parameters. The rockfall onto the Lhotse Face is relentless and I cannot put my members,...
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April 30, 2012
This is just a very brief update from all our teams, to make sure our family and friends at home know that everyone is well in the Himalayan Experience crew.
After having climbed Lobuje East for the first time on Sunday, the Lhotse and Nuptse teams are back down at Lobuje base camp resting before they will go up again on Tuesday to spend two nights on the summit. "It was wonderful up there and I...
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