Hallo guys!! We are on line… We arrived 2 days ago in the Batura base camp after 6 days spent travelling by flight from Milan to Islamabad, organize all the burocratic procedure in the Pakistani capital and than driving along the Karakorum Highway by bus and than by jeep to the village of Bar. From there in 3 days trekking we reached the 4107 meters of our base camp. I was not used to spend 6 days only to arrive at the base of the mountain… in fact in the last expeditions I spent 2-3 weeks and more to realize the same transfers…
I’m with Herve Barmasse ad our dream is to reach the unclimbed summit of Batura II 7762 m, that is considered the highest unclimbed peak of the planet. There are also 2 other friends with us. They are the 2 young brothers Martin and Florian Riegler that are here to realize their first expedition and I suggested them a nice mountain named Darwo Chook 5800 m that I saw 3 years ago. They are sharing with us only the base camp and I’m “teaching” them all the procedures and “secrets” of a climbing expedition. They are very enthusiastic about this opportunity.
Today 13th July we did our first acclimatisation escursion-clims . I and Hervè reached the summit of Ya Chhish 5130 m and the 2 young brothers went till the base of their mountain. Tomorrow we will take rest and after tomorrow we will start for our different climbs…
Ciao and stay tuned

Simone