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Forecast 26 September - Expedición Chilena Dhaulagiri 2009

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Latest report from the Chilean Dhaulagiri team: Dhaulagiri 1 Chile 0
“Today we woke up at 3 AM to go to Camp 1. But first we should pass the hanging glacier that is in front of us (which one, by the way, is falling apart piece by piece).
After a couple of hours we were in front of a huge rock wall. In that moment I reminded what Herzog (Herzeg?), the first man to try to climb Dhaulagiri, said. He looked at it, turn back and left, saying it was impossible. We look for several places till, finally, we decided to go for the rock side, in the wall named Eiger, the one that connected the glaciar up there. The problem was it was already too late and the sun was hitting hard and the avalanchs started to fall.
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Weather Forecast 26 september 09 - Cho Oyu - Himalaya 2009
Saturday, September 26th, 2009

Photo: Cumulonimbus over the Himalaya. Cho Oyu on the right. (cred: Elie Bucheron)

The Hvitserk Cho Oyu team has left the Advanced Base Camp with the one and only goal: ‘The summit!’
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Weather Forecast 25 september 09 - Cho Oyu - Himalaya 2009
Friday, September 25th, 2009

image from EverestNews.com

The Cho Oyu team is ready for the final phase of the climb: the only way is up! This is the weather forecast for the next five days:
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Weather Forecast 23 september 09 - Cho Oyu - Himalaya 2009
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

The latest satellite image (07utc) of the Himalayas shows a convective cell on the India-Nepal border near Kathmandu.
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Forecast 22 September - Expedición Chilena Dhaulagiri 2009
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Explanation of the Image: Dhaulagiri taken from the ISS
Dhaulagiri, seventh-highest peak in the world (26,794 ft/8167 m), dominates the skyline in this image taken by the Expedition 1 crew from the International Space Station using a high-magnification lens. Although it looks like a view from a high-altitude airplane, the photograph was taken out of the window of the Space Station from an orbital altitude of 200 nautical miles (370 km). The view is southeastward across the southern Tibetan Plateau of China, to the Dhaulagiri Range of the Himalayas in central Nepal.
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Weather Forecast 21 september 09 - Cho Oyu - Himalaya 2009
Monday, September 21st, 2009

Explanation of the image:

The Tibetan Plateau and a portion of the Himalayan Mountain chain are captured in this Multi-angle Imaging Spectroradiometer (MISR) true-color and stereo images from May 14, 2000.
On the left side of the image is the Tibetan Plateau, the highest plateau on Earth and often called the “Roof of the World.” Near the lower left is lake Paiku Co, at an altitude of 4591 meters.
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Weather Forecast 19 september 09 - Cho Oyu - Himalaya 2009
Saturday, September 19th, 2009

If you want to stay updated about the team’s whereabouts, plans and weather check out this page!

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7 Summits: Danish team beats the World record
Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Weather4expeditions.com supported two climbes of Henrik Kristiansen and Soeren Smidt, Mount Everest and Elbrus.

The Seven highest summits on the seven continents are know under the concept: Seven Summits. 7 Summits Aps is a new company which specializes in exclusive Adventure travels.

Owner Henrik Kristiansen, and CEO Soeren Smidt, will travel to the seven continents and climb the seven summits spring 2008 to get first-hand know-how of the climbs and build up relations to local agents.

Henrik Kristiansen is going for a world record on the seven summits.

Trips to the seven summits are available already in spring 2009.

Find out more about their achievement on the site http://www.7-summits.dk/

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Henrik: “Good to be back home”
Thursday, August 20th, 2009

DENALI DAIRY

Guinness World Records Certificate

Henrik on Denali Summit Ridge

Nice to be back in Denmark - Guinness Certificate
10 Jul, 08 - 14:00

It is nice to be back in Denmark and familiar surroundings. After five month on the road we were welcomed by an early Danish summer - green trees, mild wind, high sun, and salty smell on the warm sandy beach - that’s life and a contrast to the harsh mountain environment.

But no sooner, than we have changed from the claustrophobic sleeping bag to the cosy bedroom and duvet, the thought about the mountains and new dreams start to take shape.
Is it going to be kite-skiing from the South Pole, a dap for the North Pole before it disappears, or a trip to the thin air on Gasherbrum II? Possibilities are endless.

It’s now one month since Soeren returned from Everest and Henrik came back from the last mountain of the Seven Summits Denali. The project as a whole ended successfully with Henrik scaling the seven summits in record time, 136 days, 20 shorter than the current record, and all climbs took place without accidents and close calls. Henrik has collected all the documentation to obtain a Guiness World Record and send it to Guiness. Soeren has started to write the tale of the adventure, which eventually will become a book, and hopefully with a lot of photos of the magnificent landscape we have seen.

No doubt the Seven Summits is hype and there are definitely business opportunities in this area. We have a lot of first hand experiences, good local contacts, and material we need to review over the summer and make some conclusions. Are the company 7 Summits going to continue as a travel agency? A leadership development program? Lecturering and publishing business? Or a mixture of the possibilities? We do not know yet, but during autumn we will find out and get back with news about what we have to offer in the future.

We wish you all a nice summer

Henrik and Soeren

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