Alex Txikon and his team are at the base camp of the Manaslu waiting for the snowstorm that has hit the area to subside “for more than 36 hours” to continue its attempt to climb the planet’s eighth highest summit for the winter.
“It is falling more than five feet of snow and we do not stop shoveling. This is what there is in winter in the Himalayas. We are perfectly aware that it is going to be a tough fight. But we are in high spirits,” says the Basque mountaineer in statements released by his support team.
The snowfall started on Sunday when Small and his partner Iñaki Alvarez they were “between camp 1 and 2” and he forced them to descend to base camp.
“The tents are holding up very well. All the work we did at the beginning is paying off. I have always said that setting up a good base camp is the key and it is becoming clear that this is the case. If we had not worked well we would be in a different situation now. himself “, explains the Biscayan mountaineer.
Small it assumes that this storm makes them “return to the starting box” and that when it subsides they will have to “open a trail in the snow and mark the path of ascent with bamboo again.” “It is hard to have to start over, but we have come to work hard. We believe that we can begin to gain ground in the coming days,” he advances.
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