Manaslu and Dhaulagiri 2006: Summits and fun

Inaki Ochoa de Olza, from the Lorpen-Diario de Navarra expedition, and the asturian Jorge Egocheaga passed last night on Manaslu camp 2 at 7.000 meters. This morning, they went down in the middle of another snow storm. They plan to make his first summit attempt when the weather could be better, because the mountain is plenty of snow right now and there is a very high risk of avalanches. Despite this, the kazajs Dennis Urubko and Sergei Samoilev made summit on tuesday and are descending to base camp. This is his 10th 8000 meters for Urubko. Best wishes. Jorge.

Update 4/10/2006: Inaki Ochoa de Olza, from the Lorpen-Diario de Navarra expedition, arrived last Friday 7th of April to Manaslu base camp, located al 4.850 meters. Ochoa de Olza, who has nine 8.000+ meters, will try to climb the mountain via the northeast ridge. Ochoa de Olza found a lot a snow in the mountain, but he said that the weather seems good. He climb in a strong internatinal group who includes, among others, Dennis Urubko and  Jorge Egocheaga. Saturday 8th, he climbed until 5.500 meters, near Camp I. Jorge

Note: This is Peter Guggemos's expedition....

Earlier update: Inaki Ochoa de Olza, from the Lorpen-Diario de Navarra expedition, will depart march 13th to climb Manaslu (8.163 meters) and Dhaulagiri (8.172 meters), two of the five 8.000 meters that he hasn't climbed yet (the others are Kangchenjunga, Annapurna and Shisha Pangma Main). Ochoa de Olza, 38 years old from Pamplona (Navarra), will be in Manaslu with a strong international group that, usually, will attempt the normal route on the mountain. The climbers will be the Jorge Egocheaga, the Denis Urubko and Sergei Samoilev, the Sergei Bogomolov, the Gia Torladtze, the Horia Colibasanu and Peter Guggemos. They plan to install base camp at 4.600 meters in April. Ochoa de Olza will arrive sooner to make some trek before. This will be the second time Ochoa de Olza will be in Manaslu. In

1999 he was there working for the Spanish public television, but the snow didn't allow them to progress from the base camp. After that, Ochoa de Olza will go to attempt Dhaulagiri (8.172 meters) normal route with the italians Luca Vuerich, Romano Benet and Nives Meroi.

Ochoa de Olza climbed last year in 16 hours from the base camp to 8.000 meters but, looking the poor conditions of the snow in the final traverse down the foresummit to the real summit, he decided to come back. No one climber reached the summit of Dhaulagiri last year.  Jorge

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