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Mammut Sponsoring

We are extremly happy to announce that we recieved 10 Barryvox avalanche devices from the highy quality outfitter Mammut. This contribution enables us to continue our efforts to improve avalanche avareness and rescue methods in Nepal. We really appreciate the support and are very glad to cooperate in the future.

Servus TV report

Great feature in austrian Servus TV about our projects in Nepal. Incl. enghlish subtitles

Contour Skins Sponsoring

We are proud to let you know that we got a dontation of 30 brand new sets of skins. Contour is manufacturing high quality skitour gear in Austria and we are extremly glad to cooperate in the future.

Skiing with Pemba from Phortse on Zugspitze

Pemba Sherpa from Phortse did visit us in Germany for two weeks and due to the first snowfall of the fall, we managed to skitour on Zugspitzglacier in Bavaria. It is great to see how quickly nepali mountain guides pick up skiing so easily and fast.

World Snowboard Federation

We are extremly happy to announce our membership in the World Snowboard Federation. The Foundation is now representing Nepal in all WSF events. Now we can organize official Snowboard races and all riders can participate in the WSF global ranking.

Mera Peak Video

We are happy to announce the succesfull Ski expedition to Mera Peak. Here are some impressions that we would like to share:

“We started at 3 a.m. on the 19th towards the summit. Roped up on a 45m, 9mm rope all four us of skinned through the crevasses and crossed the left overs of the avalanche on the bottom of the North face. At around 5:20am, the sun was setting and we could see Sagarmatha, Lhotse, Makalu, Chamlang, Baruntse, Kangchendzonga and Amadablam. We reached a ridge on 6250m and had to cross several huge crevasses.

However the snow bridges were really solid and we were able to continue to the northridge and the bottom of the central summit. We left our Skis before the last incline and switched to our crampons. Pasang Rinzee Sherpa reached the summit first at 7:55am. Next was Pemba Sherpa securing first me and then Ningma Tamang with the 45m rope. We all stood at the summit for about 25minutes, cheered and took photos of Naulekh, the mountains in the southern Hinku and the whole Khumba and Makalu/Baruntse area.

We belayed down to our ski depot. Switching again from crampons to Skis and beginning the descent. At the beginning I was skiing as first to show the safest route along our route of ascent and the crevasses. We decided not to rope up for the descent because we had a good view, and knew all the major crevasses from the earlier ascent. Finally we reached the the High Camp at 5800m and took a rest for several minutes. We melted some water, took down the tents and packed up our sleeping bags, mats, garbage and climbing gear. With heavy backpacks we skied down to Mera La. We stashed our gear and skinned over to the couloir for about 20 minutes and descended to Khare.”

 

Rolwaling Video

After an intensive two week Ski and avalanche training we attempted with four nepali mountain guides to scale and ski Ramdung Go 5925m. It was the first ski and snowboard descent on the glacier and it is perfectly suited for ski mountaineering.