Ama Dablam at moonlight from Tengboche
Monastery
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Ama Dablam, Danish Expedition 1988
Den Danske Himalaya Ekspedition
This news comes to you from
Radio
Nepal:
"Mr. Soren Allan Smidt and Mr. Bo Belvedere Christensen of The Danish
Ama Dablam Expedition succesfully climbed the 6812 meter peak on 11
October. The summiteers stayed about 20 minutes on the summit and reached
back to camp 2 at 1600 hour the same day, according to the Tourism
Ministery".
This message was the culmination of an idea created by anthropologist and trekking guide Caspar Sutton while trekking in the
Everest region with Peter Voldstedlund. If there ever should be a danish
expedition to the Himalayas it should go to the most beautyfull mountain,
Ama Dablam in the Khumbu region of Nepal. Upon returning to Denmark they asked 6 of the most
capable climbers of Danish Mountain Club to join.
Ama Dablam was a perfect choice for us as a first Himalayan
mountain. We were good technical climbers but with little or no high
altitude experience. Besides been a very spectacular peak located in a
fantastic area Ama Dablam offers hard rock and ice at low level easing out
the higher we got.
Without going into details the basic fact is that the expedition
was very succesfull. The summit was reached by a team of two in pure
alpine style (no sherpas) 9 days after reaching base camp. We were the
first climbers on top in 2 years. Two more members summited 1 week
later. We were a close knitted team and the core group continued later on
succesfull expeditions to Dhaulagiri, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum 1 and
Everest.
Personally I didn't do too well, which more or less ended my alpine
career. I visited Nepal many times since - to be shown in other photo
galleries.
A danish extract of our book published on Gyldendal in 1989 is shown here.
The clickable pictures below are best shown with resolution 1024 x 768 pixels and full screen (press F11). All pictures has explanations below.
A late thanks to:
World Expeditions
Ama Dablam Trekking, Kathmandu
Thai Airways
Konica Films
Nutana
Duracell
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