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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nGerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Ralf Dujmovits<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Friends<\/p>\n I would like to give you a brief update before we depart for our expedition to K2. On Monday, we were finally able to send our cargo, which was a lot more than usual, as we do not have any stored gear in China.<\/p>\n When I wrote my last newsletter, it was not certain whether our friends from Kazakhstan would join us, so I am now even more than happy to tell you that they will be part of our expedition. Our team is now complete.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Apart from Tommy Heinrich and Darius Zaluski, Maxut Zumayev and Vassiliy Pivtsov will join us, and Tommy Heinrich’s long-time friend Lawang will support him in carrying his gear.<\/p>\n On 15 June, we fly to Bishkek via Moscow. From there we will embark on a two-day bus journey to Kashgar, where we will buy all our provisions for our seven-week expedition at the Sunday market. We will then take a jeep for three days to Ilik from where we will start our approach march to K2 base camp. I am very excited about the camels, which will transport our luggage to K2 base camp, which lies at an altitude of 3,900m. If I find the time and opportunity, I will be in touch again from Kashgar.<\/p>\n Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Ralf Dujmovits with her husband at the summit of Lhotse, 2009 Wiener Zeitung \/ Photo: Apa<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n After thirteen consecutive years spending the spring in the Himalaya, I really enjoyed being in Europe this year. However, I can’t wait to embark on another journey and I am very excited about what is awaiting us this time.<\/p>\n I am sending you warm regards and I will be in touch again as soon as I can.<\/p>\n Yours,<\/p>\n Gerlinde<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More Info:<\/strong> Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner<\/a> & Ralf Dujmovits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Ralf Dujmovits Dear Friends I would like to give you a brief update before we depart for our expedition to K2. On Monday, we were finally able to send our cargo, which was a lot more than usual, as we do not have any stored gear in China. When I wrote my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,104,105],"tags":[119,107,54,282,70,106,111,283],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletes","category-gerlinde-kaltenbrunner","category-ralf-dujmovits","tag-china","tag-expedition","tag-federal-republic-of-germany","tag-gerlinde-kaltenbrunner","tag-himalaya-light-over","tag-k2","tag-k2-expedition","tag-ralf-dujmovits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.valandre.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/a>\n
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