Photographs from the Trek
Australian Manaslu Expedition 2002
Photographs from The Trek
The Trek to Manaslu
The following photographs are a small selection from those brought back to Sydney by the Manaslu trekkers. They have been reduced in size to provide a manageable email size, I hope they are sufficiently clear.
The expedition members in Kathmandu with (blue shirt) the local organiser.
All team members swore that they had never been to Kathmandu before as this child chased them down the street with cries of "daddy". Summer is obviously on the way (in winter he wears socks).
It's somewhere up there
The gate to .........looks like Candide's entry to Utopia
A porter takes a breather. Compare the size of his load (lower right) to the size of his body
Crossing Larkya Pass up to 5200 metres. The toughest day for the trekkers but hardly a taste of what is ahead for the climbers
Three exhausted mountaineers thinking about the pass they have just crossed and the prospect of a nutritious meal of lentil beans and Yak's milk.
Base Camp. The point from which the trekkers bade farewell to the climbers. A number of the trekkers struggled from here into Advanced Base Camp with the climbers. All team members returned here for the farewell.
A few of our climbers approaching Advanced Base Camp (elev. 4750 metres). The tents are those of teams which arrived before the Australians. Guess which tents belong to the German team (clue - there are 10 of them)
The target - Manaslu at dawn. The summit approach is more or less along the skyline ridge to the right of the summit. The intended site for Camp 3 (elev. about 7500 metres), from which the summit attempt will be made, is the small rocky outcrop to the right of the skyline ridge near the right hand edge of the photo (this was shown as Camp IV in the expedition description document). The actual summit is the leftmost of the two peaks, it is more distant than the apparently higher peak.
