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May 4th, 2010
by antoinebaba

hi all,
and thanks for all the comments. It s very encouraging.
i cannot answer to all of you, but i read everything and it s great,it makes my heart warm in this rainy south of france.
(even snow today at 700 m, much lower than Himalayas)
I m working just now on a google earth map with all the bivy spot we choose on the way, with a small description as water, wood, orientation and village friendly possibility. You will be able to see all that on the website with all our tracks…Some of the tracks are projected on the ground and don t appear in 3D but it s give an idee….if someone got a solution for that….please feel free.

All together, this expedition was a 47 days trip with 26 days of fly.
We loose 5 days to go out of the mountains in Uttaranchal, pass the boarder (get the stamp) and find a good area to start again in western Nepal.We stayed one week in Pokhara, stuck with stable conditions and heavy fog and the rest has been some weather problem orelse waiting day for one left behind. The last break was at in east Nepal, during a 100 km speed west wind front who kept us on the ground walking for three days. At this point i went out to catch my visa, Brad and Eric had one more day of fly but decide after it to stop as conditions were getting mad.
We flew 12 days in india at an average of 50 km by day.
We flew 6 days in west Nepal at an average of 49 km by day.
Average fall down on east Nepal as we done really small distances with difficult weather and terrain.
All together, We flew about 1260 km for a goal wich was 1350km at the boarder of Sikkim.
At the beguining, brad was with a total weight of 115 kg in India to finish in East Nepal at 110 kg max, Eric was 99 kg to finish at 92 kg and i was at 107 kg to finish at 98 kg.
The smallest distance was 7 km.
The best distance was 87 km (Oriol & I)
The best hight was 5200m (Brad)
We walked for at least 3 days in Nepal (+1000, 4 km, -1000 and 20 km till Dhorpathan)
We walked 3 to 4 days in East Nepal (+1200, 15 km, 6 km, -1000 till the south ridge or back to the cosi river for Brad & Eric)
We have been oblige to land urgently during 3 days when the storm came up very fast over us and at a point we were spead on a maximum of 50 km, brad 26 km ahead, me, Mike and Oriol on the middle and Eric 24 km behind.
Maximum crowd at the takeoff, more than 250 peoples at 3400 m in western Nepal.
Ohhh, i was going to forgot, max climb rate, 9,5m/s in East Nepal and two days, i landed backwards at 5 km. (same days)

“voila” a bit more information…..more will come
Feel free to ask anything if you have questions.
And again a big thanks to follow us.
antoine

 

Comments

  1. Hey antoine. All these numbers sound so exciting..don’t give off everything here,Save some for the HO movie as well.:-D


    rafique
    May 5th, 2010
  2. we are waiting to watch your films and pictures so cross “the couloir” of the “boat” and ring the door hhhhi hhhhaaa

    P-S: thanks to all of you to make us dreaming and forget our little trouble during your trip


    stephan
    May 6th, 2010
  3. its been incredible SPOTting you all while in the expedition and its great to read these experiences that you guys share. waiting for the film!!! cheers!!!


    Puneet
    May 7th, 2010

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