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Hello Everyone,

It has been a whirlwind of travel the last couple of days but we are back safely in Bali where we have ended the trip.  We got out of Basecamp with only one day delay because of weather.  Then we spent the night in Timika because the flights back to Bali were full.  So with a day in Timika we played a round of golf and enjoyed a good sleep in the hotel.  Yesterday we traveled back to Bali and arrived late in the evening but had an excellent celebratory dinner near the beach were we wrapped up this epic adventure to West Papua and to the top of Carstensz.  We had a really strong, patient, and fun group of people on this climb and am grateful to have climbed with them here.  I’m looking forward to next season already!

Ben

Hello Everyone,

This morning at around 8am we had 100% success on the summit of Carstensz Pyramid!  We began our summit attempt at 2am and were the only group climbing this morning.  It had snowed a little the night before so we had some patches of snow and ice which made the upper portion of the route a little more slippery and slower going.  The team all did very well and stayed strong throughout the climb.  We are now back at Basecamp and we are relaxing, and trying to stay awake before dinner.  We are hoping the weather is good tomorrow morning and if so we could be on our way back to Bali by evening time.

Thanks for following along!

Ben

Hello Everyone,

Our entire team has now made it to Basecamp safely and more than likely we will climb early tomorrow morning!  We are thankful for the good weather today getting into basecamp.

I will update you tomorrow!

Ben

Hello Everyone,

No luck yesterday with the weather, so we returned to the hotel after several hours of waiting for the possibility of a flight to Basecamp.  After lunch the team went on a short tour of Timika.  We are heading to the airport again this morning and hoping the clouds cooperate with a couple flights to basecamp!

I will update again later today.

Thanks for following along,

Ben