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Hello Everyone,

Today we had our Puja ceremony, asking for a safe climb and safe return. It’s a traditional and fun ceremony with our entire team. We had a little bit of rain but for the most part the weather was pretty good in the morning. Tomorrow our plan is to head up to Camp 1 to spend 2 nights before completing our first rotation. The team is doing very well, healthy and strong! Our internet is not working the best right now but we are working on it. Hopefully when we get back to Basecamp in a couple days it will be better and I can send along some more photos.

Thanks for following along,

Ben Jones

Hello everybody this is Ben calling here from the Manaslu basecamp. We are doing great, the team is doing very well here. We had a rest day at basecamp today. Just kinda getting used to the altitude, our new altitude is 16,000 feet and yeah just kinda relaxing hanging out a little bit. We all had some meals, a shower this morning. A little bit of rain today, right now it’s sprinkling. Tomorrow we will be doing our Puja ceremony for safe passage up Manaslu. We will do that with our team and then get into to packing mode- getting harnesses out and getting our gear ready for hopefully heading up to camp on here in the next couple of days. Jim and Dan are both doing very well acclimatizing well feeling good. Hopefully gonna get our Wi-Fi connect tomorrow and we’ll be talking to you guys here shortly. We’ll talk soon, thanks for listening!

Hi everyone this is Ben calling here from Manaslu. We made it to base camp today! It’s a beautiful base camp here. A little bit of rain little bit of clouds for the most part today. Just finished up dinner and we’re getting ready for bed. Got a great base camp here nice and quiet area of base camp. Base camp is quite large but we got a bunch of rain this afternoon once we got moved in here camp here is that 16,000 feet. Jim and Dan are doing great doing really good and we’re trying to get the Wi-Fi solution figured out if you’re following along from home and both Jim and Dan haven’t talked to you yet that’s why. We haven’t gotten the Wi-Fi set up and running yet but hopefully by tomorrow you’ll be hearing from them but everybody’s doing great. Our crew is all doing well here. We’re gonna rest tomorrow and then we’re gonna do a ceremony the following days so we will be in base camp for a couple days here just kinda getting organized and used to 16,000 feet. Everybody’s doing great and says hello to everybody following along back home. I’ll talk to you again tomorrow. Thanks a lot.

Hi everyone this is Ben calling here from our Manaslu expedition. Sorry I was not able to post yesterday there’s been some difficulties here with the clouds and satellites not-working as well. Yesterday we hiked from Samagoan up to Samado. We spent the night there last night and then we hiked this morning to gain some more elevation for our acclimatization. We got about 15,500 feet today on our hike and headed all the way back down to Samado then packed up and all the way back to Samagoan. We just finished up dinner here doing well. Everybody’s a little tired after a long day of hiking today but ready to climb and everybody’s doing well. We just finished dinner and we’re heading off to bed. Tomorrow morning we are gonna be heading up towards Base Camp- about 4 1/2 to five hours or so to hike up to base camp and we’re looking forward to getting up to base camp and getting moved in there. Yeah everybody’s doing well here everybody says hello to everybody following along back home. We’ve had some great hikes and some good weather. We have lots of clouds around kind of some threatening clouds but never really any rain thus far, been very fortunate with the weather and nice for hiking. Having a great time and yeah we’re looking forward to getting to base camp tomorrow. Beautiful here, it’s nice and green, lush, and will be cool to get up a little bit higher. Thanks for following-along and I’ll post again tomorrow once we reach base camp.


Hello Everyone,

Today we did a couple hikes to help further our acclimatization. On our first hike after breakfast we gained about 2,000ft hiking to a very old monastery on the glacial moraine at Pungen. We had some glimpses of the high peaks around but it was mostly cloudy over the peaks. After lunch we hiked up to Borendra Taal, a glacial lake at the base of Manaslu’s lower slopes. It was a great day today and the team is doing excellent!

Tomorrow we will hike to Samdo just a couple hundred feet higher where we will spend the night and do some more hiking.

Thanks for following along!

Ben Jones