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Seven Summits Challenge
Hodges above the church at Grytviken – the route up is right up the scree slope.
Duse the last one rises above Base picture taken from Brown mountain
Directly above my head is a snow field coming down from Narval which is what we bum slid down! The peak in the far right of the picture is the second Petrel.
1700m or so of height climb, seven summits and 8 hours later we completed the seven summits challenge on saturday. Out of the 6 people who did it 3 have been at KEP for 2 years and are leaving on Monday.
This is a picture of us on the summit of the last mountain Mt Duse. In the picture are myself, Rob (the new BC), Thies (who lives on the yacht Wanderer III), Jon (the predator scientist – outgoing), Richy (the outgoing electrician) and Luke (outgoing fisheries scientist).
The route was a total of 14km involving some scrambling, ridge walking, bum sliding (down a few snowy patches), post hole digging through some small snow banks and being pushed over by 35 knot gusts. We started with Orca (277m), Hodges (605m) Petrels (two peaks one 632m the other 620m), Narval (about 650m), Brown (332m) and last Duse (507m).
One Response to “Seven Summits Challenge”
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Dear Ashley
Loved your Xmas card and message and send you greetings from us all and hope you have a fab festive season,.. Looking at what you are doing re the climbing etc it looks very dangerous so DO be careful. I know you are a dare devil but it looks scary to me.!! How do you have the stamina to cope with all the routes etc. I have never bum slide well not intentionally!! How are you getting on and what is it like really and are the other people nice? Obviously some people are coming and going.. Maybe good to have a change?? At last able to get on your site our computer has been playing up and we have invested in a new dell. It is good and much faster.. Seeing Mum tomorrow evening for a carol concert and then to go to Jane Says for book club. Still not finished the book. Whoops.. Now the site is organised I will dip in and out if you donot mind as I love reading about your adventures.
Take care and all the very best for 2011,,, Love All the WHYTEs
