#adventuredoneright

[karakorumexpeditions]

Northern Pakistan now Gilgit-Baltistan is an incredibly beautiful place for tourism and Summer vacations with your family and friends. This place offers a wide range of sightings, from Worlds seconds plautue to one of the worlds deadliest 8000meter but amazing beautiful Mountain! The cluster valleys and the culture is interesting to experience! This region is so rich for all those seek unique experiences! Our friends from @paganelstudio visited the area and captured these amazing photos! PC @travel_nextlevel . .. . @karakorumexpeditions . #paganelstudio #tourismrussia #mountainlife #touring #photography #travelblogger #travelblogger #camping #trekking #adventuredoneright #wildernessculture #epic #journey #tourism #pakistan #karakorumexpeditions #karakorumfilms #tourpartners #destinationmanagement #destinationphotographer #wildlife #mountainofmountaineers #mountaineeringwithkarakorumexpeditions #travelwithkarakorumexpeditions #expeditionswothkarakorumexpeditions (at Karakorum Expeditions) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-ode3tDTSg/?igshid=1shi1y8nbn25r

[zebblais]

#NorthsideSummitPush : return to the life zone. The struggle isn't just to get out of the "death zone", it's to get back to the life zone. After reaching the top, we want to get to thick air, warm temps and as far from the jet stream as we can. We rested at Camp 3 for an hour, rehydrating and refueling before packing our bags and returning to descent. Once again, a huge thanks to our #Phortse #Sherpa team, who dropped camp and carried our infrastructure down. #superhuman The weather didn't cooperate. As we packed, winds and clouds whipped up and light snow began. We made a speedy exit, knowing we had 6,000' of descent left before we would hit #everestabc. We arm-wrapped the fixed lines, belaying ourselves below camp, past the body of an Australian climber who had died the week before. Condolences to his friends and family. Camp 2, pictured, looked like a post-apocalyptic warzone with thick cloud rolling over tents shredded days earlier by gale force winds. Clearing the lines of rime as we went, the snow ramp between C2 and the #NorthCol seemed never ending. We paused to melt snow and drink before making the final push down the fixed lines. 18 hours after we started, we were home. Safe at ABC. Thick air. Real food. Coca cola. Beer. @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #MountEverest #Everest #Everest2017 #EverestNoFilter #Northside #DarnTough #JulboUSA #terramartribe #strapinventureout (at Mount Everest)

[mingtpoon]

Sunset in the Range of Light 🙌 ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ The #sierra putting on another spectacular show. The clouds would dissipate this evening, but return the next morning for an amazing sunrise. The #sierranevada stretches about 400 miles north-to-south and about 65 miles across. The range has more than a dozen peaks over fourteen thousand feet tall, including the tallest in the lower 48 (Mt. Whitney). With its vast mountains, lakes and streams, it offers any outdoor enthusiast lifetimes of adventure, wonder, and exploration throughout all seasons. The mountains are calling, what will you do? #alabamahills #lonepine #landscape #landscapephotography #cloudporn #sunset #adventuredoneright #ca #california #visitcalifornia # (at Alabama Hills, California)

[nepalphotoproject-blog]

Photo by @everestbasecamptrek ・・・ Just keep training, just keep training.. !! Our #RapidAscent expedition team and the #EverestNoFilter team are both incredibly focused right now!! Even though training may be tapering, it is still the main focus, and those long hard hours will soon be rewarded! 🏔📷: @coryrichards • • • • #climbskitrek #exploremore #getoutside #mountainphotography #climbEverest #Everest #liveyouradventure #AdventureDoneRight #nepal #nepalnow #nepaltrip #nepaltravel #nepaltourism #discovernepal #nepal8thwonder #himalayas #hiking #exploreeverything #expedition #explore #livelifetothefullest #livelife #trekking #hikingadventures #backpacking #bucketlist #letsgo #nepalphotoproject

[zebblais]

The #NorthCol. . This zone is either freezing or frying. Today it was frying. Intense sun, fresh snow and zero wind combined to make for brutally hot conditions. I climbed from 6,400m to 7,000 in a T-shirt 🌴🌄🌞! . We tagged the Col and cached a few of our heavy items for summit day ( @EddieBauer down suit, mittens, heavy gloves, snacks, @backpackerspantry dinners, oxygen masks and regulators). It was a great day of movement for us, and other teams had some incredible accomplishments too: . The Transcend team of 16 climbers and Sherpa made the summit: the first team from either side of the mountain to reach the top for #Everest2017 (after the rope fixing team of course). . @Killianjornet flew past our team on his way up to 7600m without oxygen . #Everestnofilter team tagged 8,000m after spending the night at 7,700m w/o O2 Incredible day! Now we just need a weather window and we're set! @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest #Northside #Tibet #DarnTough

[zebblais]

#NorthsideSummitPush: day 2, part 2 arriving at 7700m, Camp 2 ( so many 2's...). Plumes of blowing snow and convective clouds billowed off the #summit and #NortheastRidge as we arrived at Camp 2. Otherwise visibility was nearly unlimited and we could see from the summit to ChoOyu until mid afternoon moisture occluded the view with cloud. Camp 2 is much less comfortable than Camp 1. Tent platforms are pedestals of piled rock that take arduous effort to erect. At this point, most are permanent structures #Sherpa teams built years ago, and they're big enough for a tent if you're lucky. When we arrived at camp, skeletons of tents that were destroyed days earlier in a storm littered the ridge. We walked past the wreckage to tents our Sherpa had popped up hours earlier, thankful to have such a strong and hardworking team. We melted snow, made soup and drinks to rehydrate and rested. We emerged only for more snow and to watch the #Alpenglow hit the mountains at dusk. Same routine the next day! Or so we thought... @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest #Everest2017 #MountEverest #Northside #Tibet #JulboUSA @terramarsports #strapinventureout (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

#RapidAscent / #RapidDescent. Patience is everything in finding a window to summit #MountEverest. We waited to hit the sweet spot of warm and windless. It was a tough to wait. We watched teams push into dubious weather, return battered, frostbitten, and summitless, while others returned victorious. The failures justified our decisions but the successes made it more difficult to wait (despite us being happy for them). We stayed low, resting, watching the winds rake the upper #NortheastRidge. When the wind barbs on the meteogram became confused and dropped off the steady southwest flow it was time to #climb. Our window came later than expected, but I can't complain. 25 days after @brooks.entwistle arrived we were standing on the highest point on Earth! We summited 5/27/2017 and descended to #EverestABC the same day. We rested, packed, congratulated our Sherpa team and the #EverestNoFilter crew, and took off for Base Camp this morning. 12 hours ago we were at 21,000', now we're at 14,000' in the middle of #Tibet and in 12 more hours we'll be back at 29,035' - seated in an air plane! @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest2017 #Everest (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

It feels like the end of the Earth, but it's the end of the #NortheastRidge of #MountEverest. @brooks.entwistle shot this pic of me two days ago when we toured to the Lhakpa La - the pass between #Everest and Lhakpa Ri. . The team is feeling good! We're keeping our ear to the ground to figure out what other teams are doing and when we might get a weather window.🔥 Fired up! 🔥 . #getonup @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest2017 #Northside #strapinventureout #DarnTough #JulboUSA #terramartribe (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

#NorthsideSummitPush: Day 1, part 2. Camp 1 sits at 7,000 meters on the #NorthCol. From camp, almost the entire route to the #summit is visible. It ascends the 2,500' snow ramp and rock ridge to Camp 2. From Camp 2 it contours climber's right to Camp 3, then gains the #NortheastRidge, the skyline pictured here. The rugged and steeply stepped ridge separates the #KangshungFace from the North face, with thousands of feet of relief on either side. At the North Col we begin using supplemental oxygen. We rest and sleep on a low flow rate, then crank it up to climb. The relatively low elevation of camp combined with wide, flat tent platforms and oxygen makes this the most comfortable camp on the route. Plus, the views are a 360 degree panorama of the North face, #Changtse, #EverestABC, the East Rongbuck glacier and Lhakpa Ri 🌄! @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest #Everest2017 #Everestnofilter #Northside

[zebblais]

On top of the world! Great summit day- warm and calm for the duration of our climb above high camp. The night started calm and clear. As we crested the #NortheastRidge we could see across the #KangshungFace to headlamps from climbers ascending from the #SouthCol- one of the most amazing sights I've seen. Clouds built and snow started, but we picked our window to avoid the bitter winds of the jet stream, so we were pleased by the weather (until our descent below C3 😑) We made it all the way back to #EverestABC after the #summit- an 8,000' descent! @adrianballinger made the top without Os and then returned to ABC too- huge shout out for that monumental feat! So psyched everyone made it up and down safely. HUGE thanks to our incredible #Sherpa team: Panuru (sirdar), @dorjisherpa, Phurba, Nawong, @namgye, Pasang Ringi and Mingma. There is no way could do it without you! @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest #Everest2017 #MountEverest #DarnTough #JulboUSA #strapinventureout #terramartribe (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

My next few posts are a chronological series of #Everest2017, starting at #EverestABC, ending on summit day. Follow #NorthsideSummitPush to see pics from each stage, and feel free to post questions in comments or email. 🌏🗻 #NorthsideSummitPush: Day 1 The NorthCol. After acclimatizing, we waited for a suitable weather window without too many big teams. This means we need two days with low winds: one to reach high camp and one to summit. We can climb through some wind on the way to camp 1 and 2, but we ideally we have low winds to high camp. This shot is from the day we climbed to the #NorthCol, the saddle between #Changtse and #Everest. We climb this section without oxygen. The climbers shown here are just below camp, which is hidden behind the bulge of ice in the middle of the shot. Once at camp we begin using supplemental oxygen, and we'll continue to use it constantly throughout the summit push. @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #Everest #Northside #MountEverest (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

#NorthsideSummitPush: the descent. When you hit the top, you're halfway there. This statement has a heavier feel to it when you're close to the cruising altitude of a 787. The pressure to get to where the air is thick and camps aren't exposed to the severe winds of the jet stream is constant and urgent. There is no time for dilly dallying. The business at hand is descent. Here we are almost back to Camp 3 (8300m/27,000'), just getting to the bottom of the Exit Cracks. The weather was still good at this point, just convective moisture building. A few hours later winds and snow elevated and the descent became fairly intense while we climbed down past Camp 2. #Changtse, the peak that forms the other side of the #NorthCol, is popping out of the clouds. @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #MountEverest #Everest #Everest2017 #EverestNoFilter #Northside #DarnTough #JulboUSA #terramartribe #strapinventureout (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

We're headed up! We're well rested, the big teams are gone and we've got a great looking weather window. 🔥🔥🔥#FiredUp . @brooks.entwistle, @chadpeele and myself are joining @coryrichards, @adrianballinger and @estebantopomena (#EverestNoFilter) and heading up tomorrow with some of our #Sherpa team. The rest of the Sherpa will fly up later and catch us before high camp. Our #summit bid will take four days. We'll camp at the #NorthCol, Camp 2 (7700m) and Camp 3 (8400m) before going for the top on the 27th. . Wish us luck! #MountEverest #Everest #Everest2017 #Northside @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #DarnTough #strapinventureout #JulboUSA #terramartribe

[zebblais]

Yesterday was exciting if nothing else. We climbed to the #NorthCol, ready to continue to the #summit. Greeted with blowing snow and frigid temps we ascended the fixed lines and ducked into our tents at 7,000m. . Our fingers were crossed and our hopes high that we'd get a good forecast and be able to continue up. But it wasn't what #MountEverest had in mind for us. 30 climbers and their Sherpa support were gathering at the col, shooting for the same summit window. With the marginal weather window and numerous climbers, we pulled the plug. . We finished descending the fixed lines at dusk and watched the #Alpenglow wash over Lhakpa Ri and surrounding peaks. A beautiful way to end a great day of movement in the #Himalaya. #Everestnofilter #Everest2017 @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #DarnTough #climb8000 #Everest (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

Sometimes you just don't want to be at 7,000 meters anymore 😱. Here's @chadpeele making a speedy exit from the #NorthCol after we tagged it with @brooks.entwistle. For more pics and info on what climbing on the #Northside is like, check out my blog: 🔗 in profile. . The weather was great for this acclimatization push to the North Col, but now we're waiting for a #summit window. We're holding tight, reminding ourselves to be patient. This is the hardest part of a big expedition like this. If you go early on a marginal window you risk cold injuries or not summiting. Wait until later and the opportunity might escape you ⌛ . #patience #Everest #Everest2017 #8000m #Tibet #AdventureDoneRight (at Mount Everest)

[zebblais]

#NorthsideSummitPush: day 3, Camp 3, 8300m. The work capacity of our #Sherpa team bogles my mind. This is my 3rd #8000m expedition and I'm still amazed by the tireless efforts of our team. Wind, snow, wrecked tents are just minor bumps in the road. Just another day at the office for these guys! After carrying gear to camp, building platforms (some built before hand), setting tents, gathering clean snow for melting they take a bit of rest and prepare their personal gear for the #summit. Here, Panuru, Palden (@namgye) and Phurba are ascending past other teams and destroyed tents above camp to our oxygen cache to grab the bottles we'll need for our #summit attempt. On our final push we'll use 3 bottles, while Sherpa only use two (if that). Even at half the flow, they are as fast as we are 💪! Thanks team! @alpenglowexpeditions #AdventureDoneRight #NorthSide #Everest #Everest2017 #NortheastRidge #MountEverest #DarnTough @julbousa (at Mount Everest)