Boris Korshunov reached Annapurna summit, but another Annapurna...

Simone Moro:

29 May, 2004
Hi. This night I had a big problem with my stomach and so we decided to continue on the normal route. Now we are in camp IV at 7300 meters and this night at 1 o’clock Denis and I will start for our summit attempt.

Only this morning when we met our friends we resolved a mistery. Boris, our 70 years old member, yesterday turned early to summit. The others tried to cry to him, but he didn’t hear them. So he continued alone on the wrong way and at least he reached the 8051 m of central summit, alone, without oxygen and with only one iceaxe (This summit is reached only 3 times in history!). He was sure to be the only one who reached the summit and only this morning when Denis explained him in Russian he did understand. He was so sad…..
Simone

28 May, 2004
Hi, we arrived in camp 3 at 6900 meters. It's very deep snow and it was very dangerous… I only not turned back, because the other part of the team is without gas and food. So we bring up… This night we will decide what to do. We will valuate our physical performance, the weather forecast and the snow situation. Ralf, Gerlinde and Hirotaka reached summit today at 4 p.m. without supplement oxygen! Ciao till tomorrow Simone

27 May, 2004
Hi! Today Denis and I did start at 3 a.m. from BC and reached camp 2 in about 5 hours. Ralf, Gerlinde, Hirotaka and Boris reached 7200 meters, there normally is camp 4. Tomorrow they will attempt the summit, while we will go to button of the rocky part. They have very few food and gas and so we will leave some of these between camp 2 and 3 for their back. Ciao Simone

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