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Czechs
to take on Shishapangma Autumn 2002
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Sunset on Shishapangma from Base Camp |
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Josef Simunek Born in Jicin in northeastern part of
the Czech republic better known as Bohemian
Paradise, now live in Prague. In 1998 graduated in
land survey engineering at the Czech Technical
University. He began climbing when he was 17th on
the famous Czech sandstone rock towers in the
Prachov area close to his hometown Jicin. |
His mountaineering
experiences continued in the Slovakian High Tatras. In
1990 when Iron curtain has been opened, he went for
the first time to Caucasus in Russia and a year later
made an attempt on a 7000-meter peak in Pamir. In
1992, he founded with his friend Bouda and others a
group of mountaineers team called HIMALAYA 8000. The
team has organized nine expedition to eightthousanders
to this time, six of them led by Simunek. Personally
summited Shishapangma in 1995, Makalu 1998 and Lhotse
1999 all tops without artificial oxygen. In 1993 he
began to film the group's expedition and some of this
footage has been shown on the Czech TV. He is
currently cooperating with Czech TV on project called
"Czech Himalayan Adventure" which is a chronicle
documentary about Czech mountaineers on the highest
summit in the world. Member of the jury of the
Mountain Film Festival in Slovakia and member of jury
of 50´s Film Festival of Mountain and Exploration in
Trento Italy in 2002.
Josef and the elite
Czech climbers will take on
Shishapangma this Autumn 2002. We will follow along as
usual...
Dispatch One: Czech
Himalaya 8000 Shishapangma expedition leave tomorrow
Sept. 8th at 6 a.m. morning from Kathmandu to Tibetan
Nepalese border Kodari and then to first Tibetan
village called Zhangmu....
Click here for the full dispatch
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