Today I finally got my luggage coming from Europe, two bags with much equipment clothing and some food.
Today I spent the morning trying to send faxes to BA in Delhi and in London, and calling BA in Delhi. These Indians are exasperating. In the first call I was told "your bags are still missing, call in 2h". 2h afterwards they told me that they had been shipped to Ktm.
I went to the supermarket to buy food and the last necessities, then went to the barber to have a very short hair cut and my beard rasen.
This evening the whole group met for diner at an old renovated Rana palace out of town for a traditional Nepali diner with dances. We dined with a group of our agency that is going to climb Cho Oyu.
Bad news: Waz is leaving Nepal because his son is sick and he has to assist him! I am very sorry for him and for losing a good companion.
Surprisingly we learnt yesterday that we had an additional companion named Mick Parker from Australia who landed in our team under a parachute. Mick is about 34 and has climbed GII and Cho Oyu, and has failed Dhaulagiri, Kangchenjunga, Makalu. Mick has been this to year Dhaula and GII, and comes to Manaslu because he does not feel like returning to work!
Tomorrow we will fly on a small airplane to Pokhara. Contrary to what had been agreed with our agent, we have to board the helicopter in Pokhara because it will not come to Kathmandu!
All the equipment will travel on a truck by road and we will fly.
We will board the helicopter on Aug 30 early morning to Sama. Fortunately it will not alter any of our plans.
We learnt about a Swiss team coming to Manaslu, but it seems that they are coming 15 days later than we are, meaning that we will have to do all the trail breaking and route fixing.
Today I spent the morning trying to send faxes to BA in Delhi and in London, and calling BA in Delhi. These Indians are exasperating. In the first call I was told "your bags are still missing, call in 2h". 2h afterwards they told me that they had been shipped to Ktm.
I went to the supermarket to buy food and the last necessities, then went to the barber to have a very short hair cut and my beard rasen.
This evening the whole group met for diner at an old renovated Rana palace out of town for a traditional Nepali diner with dances. We dined with a group of our agency that is going to climb Cho Oyu.
Bad news: Waz is leaving Nepal because his son is sick and he has to assist him! I am very sorry for him and for losing a good companion.
Surprisingly we learnt yesterday that we had an additional companion named Mick Parker from Australia who landed in our team under a parachute. Mick is about 34 and has climbed GII and Cho Oyu, and has failed Dhaulagiri, Kangchenjunga, Makalu. Mick has been this to year Dhaula and GII, and comes to Manaslu because he does not feel like returning to work!
Tomorrow we will fly on a small airplane to Pokhara. Contrary to what had been agreed with our agent, we have to board the helicopter in Pokhara because it will not come to Kathmandu!
All the equipment will travel on a truck by road and we will fly.
We will board the helicopter on Aug 30 early morning to Sama. Fortunately it will not alter any of our plans.
We learnt about a Swiss team coming to Manaslu, but it seems that they are coming 15 days later than we are, meaning that we will have to do all the trail breaking and route fixing.
2 comentários:
Força aí malta!
Desejo o maior sucesso à expedição, que a Mãe Natureza vos seja favorável.
Entretanto continuem a postar relatos e fotos, a malta aproveita para sonhar, deste lado do planeta.
Gonçalo, dá-lhe forte!
Quem me dera estar nessas paragens tb!
Um abraço
NVirgílio
okay!
How you doing man !
surprized ?
madhav
kathmandu
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