August, 2003 news

20 August , 2003

Jannu, North Face. Only four days ago we standed at the top of Khan Tengri and made pictures with peak Pobeda at the background. Then we spent one more night at 6400 - our goal was to acclimatize before Jannu.

19 August, 2003 Pobeda 2003. MAK: Krasnojarsk-Novosibirsk The whole team (8 climbers) summited peak Pobeda via new route through peak Armenia. We congratulate Gleb Sokolov, Piotr Kuznetsov, Oleg Khvostenko, Vladimir Arkhipov, Serguey Philatov, Eugeny Bakaleinikov, Serguey Cherezov and Alexander Mikhalitsin!

15 August, 2003 Pobeda 2003. MAK: Krasnojarsk-Novosibirsk The team has climbed more than third of the new route to Pobeda. The rescue on Pobeda: Georgian climber Mirab and Spanish girl need help on their descent from the top.

13 August , 2003

Jannu, North Face. Today night the team began to climb Khan Tengri (6995 m) with the goal to reach the summit and to acclimatize on high altitude.

13 August, 2003 Caucasus, Bezengi Mountaineering Camp: the huge avalanche in August 9 have swept away three climbers who participated in Ukraine Mountaineering Championship and were climbing Dykh-Tau (NE Face, Abalakov route, 5B Russian Grade). Members of "Odessa-1" team - S. Lebedenko, K. Leontjev and A. Ushapovsky were not finded on the slopes. Our sincere condolences to friends and relatives.

11 August , 2003

Jannu, North Face. The acclimatization have successfuly completed. Team reached Camp 3 between Khan Tengri and Chapajev Peak (at altitude 5800 m), and slept in the snow cave. August 9 at 9-00 a.m. they have descended to the comfortable high-altitude Base "Tien-Shan Travel"

10 August , 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: The team in Base Camp is preparing for evacuation. Porters'll come on August 11.

8 August , 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: The extra dispatch from K2 Base Camp: the team's descending to Camp 2 and then - to Base Camp - the situation on the Mount is very dangerous.

8 August , 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: The Kazakhstan team and three Czechs are working at the route on K2. They are going to reach Camp4 (7900 m) today. Summit attempt - tomorrow!

8 August , 2003 Jannu, North Face. Acclimatization: the team spent night in Camp 2 (5300 m) The weather's poor.

7 August , 2003

Jannu, North Face. The team has already arrived to Khan Tengri Base Camp on the North Inylchek glacier. They'll climb Khan for acclimatization before going to Nepal. The goal now is not only to climb, but to spend some days on the altitude about 7000 m.

7 August, 2003 Krasnojarsk: Pobeda-2003 expedition. The team consists of nine climbers (7 from Krasnojarsk and two - from Novosibirsk) have climbed Khan Tengri - that was the acclimatization climb. Now they turn to their main goal - Peak Pobeda. The weather on Tien Shan is bad in this season - it's snowing every day

6 August , 2003 "Ukraine - Karakorum 2003" Trango Great summit! Ukrainian team - Vladimir Mogila, Alexey Zhilin, Alexander Lavrinenko, Vitaly Yarichevsky - successfuly came down to Base Camp August 4 after 2,5 days of descent under the rain. Congratulations!

4 August , 2003 "Ukraine - Karakorum 2003" Trango team (message from July 31) have to go 3-4 pitches more to reach the "roof part" of the route.

4 August , 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: We are OK, waiting the weather...

1 August 2003 The second International festival Khan Tengri 2003 - the speed ascent to Khan by the Kuzmin route. Chad Kellogg won the race. Here you can read the report of ExplorersWeb editor Dave D'Angelo, who's in Kazakhstan now, in Khan Tengri Base Camp