The first news from REP expeditions

Valery Rozov’s messages were delivered with the satellite phone provided by BASK:

21.06.04
Our greetings to everybody!
6 hour-way to Kande that we had expected really took the whole 12! The road site of 30 meters was completely washed away by a mud flow suddenly rushed down in the morning. Instead of the road we saw a boiling dirty stream. The thought about any travel further on jeeps in really foreseeable terms could not be discussed. Somehow we could get over the stream and organized a rope ferrying of the luggage and ourselves. Fortunately in Kande we managed to hire a car that met us on the other side and at some go we together with our luggage were delivered to our destination. Kande is a small village that is located in the upper of the same gorge. It was raining a half of the day, but by the evening it was cleared up, and we were astounded at the tremendous view of Masherbrum. We have two days of trekking up to the base camp ahead. There is a huge crowd of the porters wishing to get tomorrow work already clustered before our small house where we have lodged. Since the morning we are going to pack our luggage and move forward. Valery.

16.06.04
Our greetings to everybody! We are in Islamabad. It's very hot there.

We managed to solve the question about our luggage marvellously quickly, painless and not so expensive. So we have got all of the luggade and tomorrow morning we leave to Skarda.

All the day long we bought need food, a generator, gas and other important things. All of us are healthy, everything is OK, except for the heat of 37 degrees.

On June, 15 "Russian Extreme Project" team departs from airport "Domodedovo" to Islamabad. Let's wish the REP Team good luck!

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17.06.2004