Annapurna 2005: Base camp

Good morning, this is mBank Lotto Annapurna South Face Expedition.

We are all in the Base Camp, with all our equipment. Now there are about two days of placing all stuff in order and digging huge platforms. There is about 70cm of snow here, more than last year.

We are all healthy and everything is ok.

Tomorrow we are going to go up to 5600m. To get used to the altitude. And the next day we are going to start working on settling camp I.

The weather is good, and we all feel very well. Best greetings to everyone.

From the Era satellite phone, 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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