Veikka’s dispatch on 27.7.2009

Veikka and Kazuya have safely descented to Gasherbrum Base Camp. “Just said to Kazuya, that now this mountain has been climbed, it’s done and over,” Veikka told in the dispatch. “17 years of freezing wind and glacier conditions, -now that’s done and finished. It’s time to move on.”

Veikka and Kazuya just got back to BC. They brought everything back on one load. Backpacks were like apartment buildings. Naturally they want to go home asap. Veikka called and ordered 15 porters, they should arrive in 3-4 days.

Veikka keeps dispatching daily all that time he spends in Pakistan.

Abseiling down Japanese Couloir (Photo courtesy of Veikka Gustafsson).