This past winter, Ralf Dujmovits and I enjoyed a sport climbing and travelling trip to S.E. Asia for two months. This is part two of our adventure.
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Dan Evans, Patrick Bruce, and Michelle Brazier depart for Sam Ford Fjord, Baffin Island, traveling by snowmobile and qamutik (Inuit hauling sled) on their 17-day search for big lines in Canada's north.
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"I have seen the havoc wreaked by natural disasters on TV and in photos before, but I can tell you that it is entirely something else to see it in person. I came to Nepal over a month ago to climb a mountain, and am leaving with images of total human misery and loss burned into my memory." - Nancy Hansen
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An update from Nancy about her experience with the Nepal earthquake: "Ralf and I had just started hiking to advance base camp (ABC) at 6,400m when the first earthquake hit. We didn't understand that it was an earthquake, despite having to run from huge boulders coming down from the slope above us. .."
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Nancy Hansen shares an update as she and Ralf Dujmovits arrive at Everest's north side basecamp: "The mountain looks really, really big, and it is still 25km distance and 3.7 vertical kilometres above our heads. Best not to look too often! Seriously, though, the north face of Everest is truly spectacular."
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Ralf Dujmovits, Nancy Hansen and the AMICAL Alpin expedition team are on the road to Chinese Base Camp on the north side of Mt. Everest. They spent five days in Kathmandu, being tourists and doing their final packing. Read about their Kathmandu adventures and prep for heading to base camp.
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Many people have been asking about Ralf and Nancy's itinerary for their Everest trip and they've shared it here. Obviously the exact dates will change according to weather and how the acclimatization is going.
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ACC Ambassador Nancy Hansen will be attempting Mt. Everest via the Norton Couloir this spring. You wouldn't know it from Nancy's humble writing style, but this is a pretty big deal — this route on Everest's North Face has only been climbed twice and she'll be climbing in a team of two with no supplemental oxygen.
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This past August, the ACC's Yukon Section partnered with Parks Canada to explore a remote area of Nahanni National Park Reserve in the Northwest Territories in order to report back on the hiking and climbing potential in the area over the course of 12 days.
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Another story in an ongoing series of articles about Nancy Hansen's journey and experiences in chasing down the climbs listed in the iconic guide/history book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.
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Nancy Hansen writes about the inspiration and vision behind her goal to climb Steve Roper and Allan Steck's Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, and describes the climb on her first objective: Mount Sir Donald.
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