An avalanche caused damage to the Manaslu base camp, as reported Alex Txikon this Monday, January 10. The mountaineer from Lemoa (Bizkaia) assured that all members of the expedition are well.
“An avalanche has caused significant damage to the base camp. Has uprooted several stores. Three teammates came down from base camp on time and were unharmed, “Txikon said.
“They have lived moments of tension in base camp. Simone Moro and I advised that individual tents be dismantled because of the danger that this could pose. There were people who did not agree, but in the end we made that decision, it was the right one and the right one. If someone had been clearing a trail above base camp, it would have been catastrophic. Thanks to having descended we have escaped a catastrophe. We want to pull up, but the mountain is telling us no, and life is the most important“added the Basque mountaineer.
The Txikon expedition is waiting to receive more information about what happened at the base camp to carry out an assessment of the material damage caused by the avalanche.
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