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That afternoon, we all sat at Huspang and watched in replica Patek Philippe watches awe as an endless deluge of avalanches ripped down the faces of the mountains surrounding us. It was absolutely amazing and a strong reminder that progress in the mountains is dictated by the mountains themselves, not our deadlines.That night, we were up at 11:00, packed, fed, and ready to roll by midnight, only to discover that two of our porters had decided the avalanches, deep snow, and thousand-meter pass (3,281 feet) ahead wasn’t worth their $27 a day compensation. They had snuck off during the night.

With the Safety Team waiting on us, we had to repack our gear and leave behind one 20-kilo (44-lb) bag at Huspang, to be gathered up later. We shed all non-essential climbing gear--books, extra clothing, meds, shampoo. By midnight, we were on replica watch gift the trail, with the Safety Team following us into the cold, clear night.After crossing six different avalanche debris paths, we made the base of the route in two hours--actually, Frippe made it in 1.5 hours, and the rest of us made it in two. After a bit of searching, we found the fixed lines still intact,

and it was just a matter of chopping the ropes and kicking steps out of 1,000 meters (3,281 feet) of hardened avalanche debris. Halfway through, we saw the best replica watches lights from the porters’ headlamps in the distance.Proving that the Safety Team was far from the ignorant slackers I had pinned them for, the first of the porters reached us just as we reached the top of the la. Ol’ Green Teeth knew exactly what he was doing.

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So we made a plan to join the Gondogoro Safety Team (ol’ Green Teeth, as it were) the next day to refix the ropes so that we could leave the replica iluxury watches following day. We started off at 6 a.m. Green Teeth drank tea and scanned the heavens for any kind of sign that would cancel our mission. As the day dawned, we reluctantly left Hushpang. We topped out at 5,500 meters (18,045 feet) on Gondogoro-la. Trekking from south to north, you ascend the la with an amazing view of Masherbrum on your left, and as you crest the saddle,

What was supposed to have taken 1.5 hours to get to the base of the ropes took us (primarily Fredric and I) three hours of breaking trail through replica Longines watches deep snow while Green Teeth guided from behind. By the time we reached the ropes around 9 a.m., the sun was blazing. The Safety Team deemed the avalanche risk too high to continue and called for a retreat. After the difficult approach, I was tired, hot, and fuming about having to retreat.

Nice days are rare in the Karakorum, and if we didn’t fix the route right then, we’d be wasting a gorgeous day and pushing our plans back yet another day. At this rate, we’d never reach K2. In the end, Fredrik’s cool mountain sense intervened, and he replica Vacheron Constantin watches agreed the avalanche risk was too high, but we could return at midnight when conditions should be more stable. The porters could follow two hours behind us, which would give us time to fix the ropes. To me, this idea sounded like a junk-show recipe, but I had no better plan and had to agree.

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We may not have a cook tent, medical bag, food, fuel, or a stove, but we made it, and we couldn’t be happier.The whole ordeal started when we left Hushe, bound for K2 via Gondogoro-la, with a quick side trip to try to climb and ski Laila Peak. replica Movado watch Hushe is where the road ends and the trekking begins, but we were unable to find enough porters to carry all our climbing and ski gear, food, fuel, and other equipment needed for a three-month expedition. So we left most of the food and fuel at Hushe with a plan to have it brought on a subsequent carry.

By the time, we had made our attempt on Laila and were ready to move on to K2, the missing gear still had not shown up, although the 19 porters needed to Bvlgari replica watches get us and our existing gear to Huspang camp had. We were reassured that our gear would follow right along behind us, so we set off for Huspang under a darkening sky. Sure enough, as soon as we entered the middle of the glacier, the clouds dropped and we found ourselves in a whiteout with a light snow falling,

post-holing to our knees with a line of porters behind us in standard-issue white plastic sneakers with holes in their socks. Needless to say, it took us a bit longer than anticipated, but we finally arrived at a snow-covered Huspang for what we thought would be a Tissot replica watches short night before crossing the Gondogoro-la the next day. That was until a big man with green teeth told us that the fixed ropes the porters would require to cross the la had been avalanched. Then the porters demanded a rest day to dry their socks.