R.E.P. expedition: "After two day trekking along a very beautiful valley we reached the base camp"
Hi, everybody!
After two day trekking along a very beautiful, narrow valley finally we reached the base camp. Wherever one looks there are huge rocky walls, but no one of them does not have a simple route of ascent. So it seems I won't be able to B.A.S.E.-jump before our ascent. Distance up to the base camp is not such long, but the way presents constantly steeply elevation ascent. The weather is bad. All the day long with small breaks it is raining and it's rather cold. Locals speak that the real summer has not come yet.
The base camp is settled on a moraine of the glacier, which is going down with the upper valley. Amin Brakk towers direct in front of us (it's in the background of the photo). It is approximately 1,5 - 2 hours of trekking up to the beginning of the route: we have to go down from the moraine and to cross the glacier. Let's see tomorrow as it will appear. All of us are healthy. Valery.
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22.06.2004
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