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That was good, thanks for posting. So it’s squeeze time for the 400 permits on the mountain. Plus sherpas.^ what I was thinking too but ...
(1:01sec in) "ski from the summit of the actual summit ... which has been redetermined and it is up on a very steep and sharp angled ridge"
It certainly sounds like they tried to ski from the true summit. It goes along with Morrison’s saying they transitioned to skis very quickly after reaching the true summit. Climbing back would be 30-40 min maybe at that altitude?
Also in that it has an Instagram post of hers.-
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…The constant monsoon with its incessant rain and humidity has made me hopelessly homesick. I am challenged to find the peace and inspiration from the mountain when it’s been constantly shrouded in mist. Yesterday we ended our summit bid when we decided it was too dangerous to move from C3 to C4.
We subsequently decided to ski down from C3 knowing that would mean carrying our skis all the way back up the mountain again if, big if here, we try again for a summit. It was the best thing we could’ve done.
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As soon as I made the first turn in the sticky hot pow, in a total white out, all the weight and seriousness that had been plaguing me this whole trip faded to the background…
———————-September 22, 2022
[Edit - She’s talking about Camp 3 to Camp 4. Not the summit ridge. Pretty sure]
So c4 would be the true summit
AAC Publications - The 8000-er Mess
This flag-draped rock pile on Manaslu is just below the point where most climbers stop their ascent—a point about 20 meters before the actual sum...
publications.americanalpineclub.org
(You can also see why Jackson Groves’s drone shots are so incredible. You get a clear view of the summit ridge. In most photos it’s very compressed visually)
Really kind of nuts to try to ski c4 to c3
unroped.
Allison Hargreaves was vilified for climbing mountains in the 90’s. She was blown off the mountain and killed on K2 in 1995. Her young son at the time was killed 24 years later climbing Nanga Parabat.
The Jackson’s photos posted were from last Sept.-
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