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You'd have to figure it'd be the Russians. They love their sufferfests...

 

I mean, take Nastia fer instance... ;)

 

I would just simply die with no struggle on my way to that base camp, Paul. :)

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You'd have to figure it'd be the Russians. They love their sufferfests...

 

I mean, take Nastia fer instance... ;)

I would just simply die with no struggle on my way to that base camp, Paul. :)

Ohhhhhh, I don't think so, judging from the TRs of yours that I've read. There's more fight in you than a honey badger... :)

 

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7pGZudN8rE

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You'd have to figure it'd be the Russians. They love their sufferfests...

 

I mean, take Nastia fer instance... ;)

 

I would just simply die with no struggle on my way to that base camp, Paul. :)

 

*cough* Sandy Glacier Headwall *cough*

 

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take Nastia fer instance...

 

I'll gladly take Nastia ;)

 

Nastia_Liukin080824007.jpg

 

You all can have the K2 winter climbing sufferfest....

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Signore Moro has some recent experience to draw on from the 1st winter ascent of Gasherbrum II...

 

"Cold" is a really good climbing film from that expedition...

 

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Isn't there an article Urubko in the new Alpinist? I think I caught a glimpse of it during my morning constitution, as it showed up in my mail yesterday. He's got the sickness, for sure. His Cho Oyo new route was in AAJ a few years back.

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When on the west buttress in 2001 we topped out above the fixed lines to encounter a Russian guy wearing a leather vest over a gortex jacket taking a break to smoke a cigarette before continuing up with an obscenely heavy pack. We found cigarette butts all the way to the summit and back. To be able to chainsmoke at 20K is pretty impressive.

 

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The Russian attempt on the first winter ascent of K2 was abandoned today, when Vitaly Gorelik died of heart failure in Base Camp. Gorelik and partners Valery Shamalo and Nicholas Totmyanin made it to a highpoint of 7200m on the South-Southeast Spur, and descended to Base Camp by February 2 with bad weather in the forecast and frostbite on both of Gorelik's hands.

 

 

 

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web12w/newswire-vitaly-gorelik-dies-k2

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