Silvio Mondinelli: Annapurna 2005 Moving up.

Update: Dear EverestNews.com, yesterday Gnaro's team left BC, they all can't wait to go up, even if the weather was not so good. They carry some more materials (food and ropes) that they could be need for their summit push. There was nearly half meters of fresh snow so the conditions of the mountain at the moment are dangerous and often You can hear avalanche come down.

On CII they find Lock's team doing their exercise of acclimatation.

While they descend on BC they dismantle the tent settled on CI as they do not need any more. Now they are all at BC waiting, probably till Sunday, the good weather. Everything is ready, let's see what happen!

Ciao. Idel

Editorial Note: Idel is Silvio's wife and long time contributor to EverestNews.com

Previous Update

Background

Silvio will go to Annapurna around the 20 of March together with 4 Italian friends (Mario Merelli, Christian Gobbi, Daniele Bernasconi, Mario Panzeri). They will try on the North Face. After he will probably go with "Al filo de lo imposible" team to Nanga Parbat.

Silvio Mondinelli, (1958), Mountain Guide, Alagna Valsesia, Italy reached the Summit of Everest without Oxygen on the 23rd May 2001. Since then he has added Summits of G1, G2 and Dhaulagiri. Four SUMMITS OF 8000M PEAKS IN 2001 FOR SILVIO. Four 8000 meter peaks Summits in 2001 for Silvio. He is a rising star...

We covered Silvio Mondinelli on Autumn Annapurna 2002.

We covered Silvio Mondinelli on Winter Broad Peak.

In Spring of 2003 he was on Kangchenjunga.

Shishapangma 2003

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