Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005

Update: June 25, Skardu

Update: Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005 : Finally Moving!

update: Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005: Diego's Lucky Horseshoe; was the Porter as Lucky?

Update: Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005: Finally on the Hill

Update: Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005: camp 2 helping with the rescue

Update: Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005: No summits and Everyone's Alive

Update: Mike and Don: Broad Peak 2005: The Party's Over

Background: Mike Farris has been climbing rock and ice since 1975 and has climbed in Alaska, Canada, Argentina, Nepal, as well as all across the USA. He reached 8000m on the North Face of Kangchenjunga in 2002 and 7900m on Broad Peak in 2004. He is the author of Rock Climbing: Minnesota and Wisconsin and is Associate Professor of Biology at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Don Bowie has climbed big wall routes on Baffin Island, alpine ice routes in the Rockies and Sierras, and alpine rock routes in many places around the world--many of them solo. Don lives in Bishop, California and is part of the Inyo County Search and Rescue team.

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