Stories: Rapid Ascent
Mountain adventures create the best stories, and we want to share some of ours with you. Dive into Alpenglow Stories to stay up to date on expeditions in the field, read blogs, and get tips and tricks from guides.
Helicopter Rescues From Kathmandu!
Sometimes when the weather doesn’t play nice and things don’t go according to schedule, even an incredible city like Kathmandu can become unbearable. Despite lots of visits to temples and…
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Packing Up The Himex team is just packing up our base camp and getting ready to leave for Samagoan tomorrow morning. But before we shut everything down, we would like…
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Himex has done it again I would like to start this Newsletter by saying how much we missed Aaron on our summit push on 1st October. Unfortunately our great team…
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Horizontal Limits After having been up higher on the mountain for four nights we are back down at base camp enjoying showers, good food, clean clothes and actually standing upright….
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Here comes the rain again Despite Phurba Tashi’s prediction for better weather with the Buddhist calendar having moved from summer to autumn a couple of days ago, we are still…
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The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience: Power shortages, musical delights and a cricket match Due to the severe power shortage we are currently faced with here…
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The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience: Manaslu vs Everest On Saturday morning, we were woken to the sound of gear sorting and when I looked out…
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The following blog is courtesy of Billi Bierling, Himalayan Experience: Old school climbing gear and an outing to Camp I On Friday, we had the opportunity to put to practice…
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