The Team reached Camp 1 at 5500mt, successfully today and in a satellite call to basecamp they update us about their progress so far. We know they are fine and safe. Although the call was in Italian but we have prepared the translations in English quoting the athletes in the conversation.
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
” So.. we are at about 5500mt, we haven’t checked precisely on the GPS yet. Today was a good day because we reached the spot where we left our gear in about two hours, we grabbed everything and continued up. We crossed the glacier in the valley between the Ganalo Peak and Nanga Parbat. We traced a route in the labyrinth of seracs and crevasses until we finally made it to the left side of the moraine.
Then we continued up and we are now in a very safe location… we can see the mountain that divides the Ganalo Peak from Nanga Parbat… we have in front of us the Kinshoffer, the route I opened in 2003 with Lafaille.. we are definitely in a great position to observe the wall. Tomorrow’s program is to continue up.. reach 6000mt.. the best would be to reach the mount or at least have a clear idea of the route we want to take, and then leave from the mount a bit earlier. So what we had in program for today is pretty much the same program we have for tomorrow.”.
Simone speaking with Base Camp from Camp 1 – 5250mt
