Cybercasts

Hello again from Peru, this is Konstantin from the Team Hermes.  We have just arrived at the advanced base camp for Pisco, 4900m above sea level.  It’s a fantastic place, we are surrounded by high peaks, glaciated peaks, the three of the Huascaran Peaks, I can just watch in front of me, I can see Chopicalqui, I can see Huascaran Sur, I can see Pisco, a really fantastic place, everybody made it, we’ve set up our tents, and we are just going to have lunch in a couple of minutes, and then we are going to bed pretty early and we will wake up 2am in the morning, tomorrow morning to start the final ascent of Pisco, so thanks very much and by bye.

Yes hello again, Alpine Ascents followers, this is Team Hermes as we are called nowadays.  This is Konstantin, we are at the basecamp of Pisco Mountain, 16,500 feet, 4500m.  We took a 2,500 foot vertical gain, today trekking up to the basecamp, it’s pretty late.  And for this reason, because our donkeys came very late with our tents, we are going to spend the night in the refuge, because of tired climbers.  So tomorrow morning starts our climb through the moraine to the advanced basecamp.  Everybody’s OK, everybody is doing great, and we will talk to you from the advanced basecamp tomorrow, thanks very much, bye.

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.

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.

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.