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  • Kande Hiunchuli Expedition 1984

In 1984 Mark Adams and I tried to climb a remote and unclimbed mountain in West Nepal. We had to trek from near the Indian border to Jumla. This took two weeks. Another few days took us to our base camp where we left our Sherpas. We crossed a 5000m pass to get into the Changda Khola. From there, after being pinned down by heavy snow fall for some days, we hauled our gear up to the foot of the intended ridge. We were running out of food and moved on to below another ridge where Mark made a climb up onto it and found himself looking across into Tibet. I was too exhausted to accompany him. We then had to get out and had to fight to get back to base camp.

Swayanbunath

headquarters

The Team

KH1 Money

Market

Cobbler

Packages

Taxi

Shakti Bullet

Shop

Two kids

Girl in shop, Surkhet.

Buying flour.

Dawn, porters

First steps

On the march 1.

On the march 2.

Rhododendrons and porters

Porter resting.

Shaving

Two types of porterage

Wardrobe

Tea shop child

Snotty child.

The path

Sacred tree

Camp on terraces.

Evening camp

Massage

Spinning and music

Women

Angels

Mad concert 1

Mad concert 2

Porters

Porter and yaks. Jumla

The team and porters

Chaudabise Khola

Bridge guardian

Chaudabise Khola 2

House

On the march

Upper Chaudabise gorge

Base camp

Yak skull

Base camp under snow

Basket case

Camp 1 under snow

Camp 1 snow

The col with Gombu

Descent

Camp 2 snow

Camp 2 - sun

Gulley

Carry by moonlight

Exhaustion 1

Exhaustion 2

Carry to Camp 3

Carry towards Camp 3

Kande Hiunchuli dawn

Avalanche

Scale

Tea

Kande Hiunchuli North

Towards Camp 4

Camp 4

Camp 4

Me ill at Camp 4

The ridge

Return

Mark back

Beginning of retreat

Goodbye

Escaping Changda Khola

Battling towards the col

Mark at col

GK back at the col

Mark back at base camp

Back with the team

Passing wedding

Jumla airport