Antarctic Peninsula – Danco Ice Climbing – 23rd December
Our 3rd Morning ashore was held on the low slopes of Danco Island where our guides quickly climbed a short steep section of ice about 300m away from the main landing of Danco Island to set up 3 different tope ropes. These ropes were set up with increasing difficulty and everybody soon got to get […]
Antarctic Peninsula – Jabet Peak – 22nd December
Jabet Peak is one of the more technical ascents we make on the Basecamp trip and requires a small team of experienced climbers – well versed in the use of crampons and pitched climbing. It is normally a 6 – 7 hour climb getting the small team + guides to a height of 550m above […]
Antarctic Peninsula – Neko Harbour – 21st December
The increasing winds on the morning of the 21st meant that out first major plan change occurred when we shifted to Neko Harbour for the afternoons shore activities. Neko provides a long gentle rise to a high view point over the ocean below. Plancius started to look like a small toy ship and the passengers […]
Antarctic Peninsula – Georges Point – 21st December
21st AM– Georges Point After a series of changes to PLAN A, (which gave a hint of the weather to come) the Mountaineers made a landing at Georges Point. Our Team had their first experience of snow shoes on a short hike up the glacier to the point where we roped up and started our […]
Sunny Days in Ushuaia – 2019/20 Antarctic Season
Its been a hectic few days since leaving Wanaka as Trevor Street and I travel south to meet up with the rest of the Oceanwide Team aboard MV Plancius. Tomorrow morning we will head down with the other new onsigners to Plancius and then get quite busy. Reporovisioning of the ship, shifting passengers bags onto […]
Kyajo Ri – Summit Day
Tagging the Col – 24th April Prior to our chosen Summit day we made the choice to go back up to the COL properly as the weather forecast was good for visibilty and would give us a good chance to look at the Technical Rockband, see IF the fixed lines were actually in place and […]
Kyajo Ri – Plan Changes – Tagging Camp 2 – Old Friends and Snow
The day after we had walked through the white out to reach Camp 1 on Kyajo Ri, we actually realized that we were about 50 m lower and 200m away from our Ideal campsite – it would give us a view of our objective but more importantly it would also get the SUN about 45 […]
Mende – Basecamp – Camp 1
Kyajo Ri 2019 Mende to Camp 1 via Basecamp
Kyajo Ri – Departing Namche
We’ve spent the last few days in Namche – sorting gear -washing cloths – resorting food and getting loads to Basecamp prepared. We expect a reasonable amount of snow on the route compared to the drier conditions that this time of year normally brings. Namche has been a good place to rest and watch the […]
Acclimation Protocol – Journey to Gokyo Ri
Heather and I are now actually down in Phortse – only about 3 hours from Namche. Over the last 7 days we’ve been slowly making our way to Gokyo Ri to acclimatise ourselves to the altitude we need to enable us to function at Camp 1 on Kyajo Ri A slow trek is an absolute […]