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Carstensz Pyramid Expedition News October 2007.
Carstensz Pyramid Expedition News 4 October 2007.
The Team Leader : Dave Pritt
John Starbuck
Lei Wang
Paul Taylor
13th Nov. Success!! We had a text message from Dave this morning saying that all the team reached the summit of Carstensz yesterday. They are all now back in Timika and should be back home by Thursday.
7th Nov Tomorrow the team will travel through the Freeport Mine (legally) and should arrive at Carstensz Base Camp after about 3 hours.
6th Nov The team will be moving over to Timika in the early hours of tomorrow morning. With a bit of luck they will arrive at BC either tomorrow or the day after.
4th Nov The team are departing the UK today with the first of many flights in order to get to Carstensz BC over the next 3 days
About Dave Pritt
Dave Pritt is the Director of Adventure Peaks. With over 30 years of mountaineering feats, he is a very experienced high altitude mountaineer who has led expeditions to K2, Broad Peak and five Everest expeditions. Dave has completed the 7 summits, led an expedition to Ski the South Pole Last Degree, Satopanth in India and in 2007 he guided Ian McKeever to break the world record for the seven summits in 156 days. He is lucky enough to have climbed on the majority of our advertised peaks, but the Tien Shan remains his favourite destination.