Ed Viesturs' Quest for the 8,000 meter peaks

Annapurna

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Today, April 15th, about [Unintelligible] morning we had a very big snowstorm that has made the climbers to stay at the tents. We had about 40 [Unintelligible] centimeters of snow above Camp I. So the members of the American expedition were unable to proceed to find a route that will lead them to Camp III. They think that if the weather tomorrow gets better they will be able to proceed to find a route to arrive to Camp III (click for photo of climbing route: 42k). In the country the weather, it's bad... they will stay in the tents in Camp II, or they will come down to Base Camp.

Concerning the Spanish expedition, they have come down from Camp I to Base Camp and they will rest at least one day before continuing on the mountain. The weather tonight is not very good, we expect another snow storm tonight and we hope that the weather in one or two days gets better so we can continue climbing.

Yesterday I didn't explain very well the members of the Spanish expedition: their leader is Dr. Josep Antonio Pujante from Barcelona, also [Unintelligible] from Barcelona; the Base Camp manager is myself, Jake Malinz, also from Barcelona; [Unintelligible], also from Barcelona; Borca Basqual from Madrid and Josep Veiko from the Basque country and the international member from Turkey Ouba Ouluak. These are the seven members of the Royal Spanish Expedition, even we can say it's an international expedition also because we have the right patronage of the Royal House of the Spain and the Royal House of Nepal.

Thank you very much and good night to everybody from Annapurna Base Camp, bye-bye.

— Jake Malinz, calling on behalf of Ed Viesturs MountainZone.com Correspondent


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