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July 13
Yes Good Morning, it’s Konstantin from the Alpine Ascents Peru Expedition.
When I call here, there is some repeating of yesterday’s cybercast because for
some reason the signal was cut. We have been to Ishinca, we have climbed
Ishinca, 5 out of 6 of us, summited with a great day, some fantastic views
from the summit. We came back to base camp yesterday and slept in the refuge
which was a luxury. We just did breakfast and now we are heading to Huaraz for
a two day rest before we attempt Pisco. Everything is great, everybody is
doing fine and, yeah, stay tuned, thanks very much.
July 11
Hi this is Konstantin from the Alpine Ascents Peru 2012 climbing expedition.
We are just preparing to leave the base camp of Ishinca Mountain. we are at
about 14,400 feet that’s about 4400 meters, and we are just putting everything
in our big backpacks and we are going to gain another 900 feet elevation, so
we are sleeping at 15,300 and then tomorrow early in the morning we are going
to attempt Ishinca. Everybody is OK, people are acclimatizing quite well, so
we are just hoping to have a good day tomorrow when we attempt Ishinca, thank
you very much bye bye.
July 10
Hi this is Arnab, part of the Alpine Ascents Expedition to Peru, just
reporting to say that we’ve reached Ishinca Base Camp. We started out
yesterday from Huaraz and drove up to a village called Pashpa, from there we
had a relatively easy walk up to Ishinca base camp that took five hours. Today
we are spending time acclimatizing at Ishinca base camp, since we gained
elevation of almost 1500 meters. It’s a lovely, lovely day, clear skies, we
can see the peaks of Urus, and Tocllaraju. We are planning on doing a slight
acclimatization hike up a moraine, where we can get some better views. And
then we will come down and review some basic skills before we move up to high
camp tomorrow.
All in all it’s been great so far. A big shout out to Jose and the crew,
they’ve been treating us really, really well. All is well, I think everyone
here is doing extremely well so far, we are taking it easy and acclimatizing
slowly. Hi Mom, Hi Dad, everyone’s fine, I’m fine, things are going great, no
problems so far and we are in very good hands. Signing out.
July 9
This is Terry Casey for the Alpine Ascents 2012 Great Peaks of Peru trip. It’s
Day 5 here I believe, and we had a great acclimatization hike up to Lake
Churup today, about 2.5 hours up or a little less and about an hour and a half
down. Great dinner tonight hosted by Jose Luis and tomorrow we are off to base
camp for Ishinca. And I think it will be several days before you hear probably
from us again. The weather’s been good, everybody’s healthy, looking forward
to a great next couple of days.
July 7
Hi everybody this is Konstantin from the Alpine Ascents International Peru
Expedition. We are in Lima, we’re at the lobby of the hotel. Everybody has
arrived safe, everyone’s gear appears to be here as well which is good. We
spent the day touring Lima, we went to the historical center and watched the
change of the presidential guard, we went to the gold museum, and toured the
city basically, it was fun, the weather is good. We had some nice dinner, you
know protein and carbo loading. And people have gone to their rooms now to
have a sleep, and tomorrow morning we start out bus tour to the Cordillera for
the first time tomorrow, we are very excited about that. This is our first
cybercast, we want you to stay tuned, so you can follow along, thanks very
much good night.
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