Annapurna 2005: Day nine and Ten, the picture is nice...

Day 9: Good Morning this is mBank Lotto Annapurna South Face Expedition.  Today (29th o March) we have reached the Annapurna Base Camp – ABC, the last loggia on our way to place were we will settle our Base camp. We have some troubles with our porters, because they put our equipment in this loggia and left and this is not a place where we want to settle our BC, of course. So as it was a year ago we have to hire another group of porters, that will carry our equipment up to the proper place. I think that it should take about two days. During this time we will take some rest and we will wait for our two members. Everybody feels good, the weather is changeable – it is always good in the morning, later it gets worse.

Piotr Pustelnik

Day 10: Hi, this is mBank Lotto Annapurna South Face Expedition. This is our first day (30th of March)  in the place where we are settling the proper BC. There is about 70 cm of snow here, so at first we will have to place the tents on the snow, and later we will dig out the snow to put the tents on the grass. It will require much work. The weather is OK, this snow is the remaining of the long winter. I hope that Marcin and Piotr will join us today. Everybody feels good.... I must admit that I am a little excited about looking at this Face again. It changed a little, but what the situation is we will check when we come up near to the Face.

Good Bye. Piotr Pustelnik

Piotr Pustelnik will lead a group of veteran climbers to attempt to summit Annapurna in Spring 2005. After Annapurna he is considering Broad Peak "via normale but I still think about this unclimbed ridge starting near Concordia." We have covered Piotr numerous times including Annapurna 2004. Piotr Pustelnik, with his Summit of Kangchenjunga has joined an elite group in the goal to reach the True Summits of the 14 8000 meter peaks.  Below is a short biography of Piotr Pustelnik

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