Ivan Vallejo Ricaurte: Autumn Dhaulagiri 2006

Camping Base of the Dhaulagiri, 18 of October of 2006 Thus it is loved friends, the winds of the Dhaula cause that it gives by finished my expedition and with it I finalize my objectives of this year 2006 that, in spite of this new misfortune, definitively has been wonderful.

It is over. Hours ago Sete and Ivan finished arriving at base camp from C2 with great difficulty due to terrible conditions of the snow. According to the plan, Monday 16 they left to go up, and with great surprise when arriving at the broken and disturbed glacier by which, they had to cross the ice valley that leads to the C1. There was a section that seemed to Ivan extremely dangerous. It took them twenty minutes solve that section, then everything was a total disorder, they did not know by where to follow and each step that they came to over the blocks they were concerned the blocks would fall. After getting across they found heavy snow and the wind picked up... Time to go home... More later..

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