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19, July
Igor Barihin was killed with stonefall...The rest are alife, but harmed, they descended from 6200 in order to find his body. Uselessly...

Details - www.risk.ru

 

 

14, July
Yesterday they had a rest because everybody felt very tired. In addition Alexander Odintsov is not well, some stone shot just in his back, he goes on making ascent but can't lead. Today Klenov and Davy made two pitches so for the moment 2/3 of the wall was done.

9, July
8,July. Mikhail Bakin informs from BC:
The team took over the most dangerous couloir which was fatal one last summer. Today they climbed up ice-wall - the most extensive and physically difficult part. Tommorow, 9,July they are going to fix line up on the rocks. The weather is good. To reduce an objective danger of the route they decided to climb touch lefter. The liaison officer broke his toe and our cook has stomachache.

7, July
Today Russian team began new route!

4, July
Today by 10:00 PM, we received a phone call from the Latok Base Camp from Alexander Odintsov leader of Russian Latok III Expedition. He said, weather is fine and we hope to make the summit in few days. Here at base camp every thing is fine and every body is doing well, he added. They have already established camp II. More news will be coming soon.
Essar Karim - http://everestnews.com/rl.htm

29, June Odintsov wrote:
The situation is: today we descended from Latok VI, all of us including the doctor spent the night on the summit, so our acclimatizing ascent has finished. Everything goes right way. The only thing is bad: till now we have no any gas. We made a call to Islamabad, Niknam told us that gas was come 24, June only. The weather is completely crazy. It's cloudeless, the sun is shining during five days already. We have never seen a kind of weather. So we're waiting for gas. As soon as the gas arrives, we'll start.

26, June
The weather got better. The sun is shining. They are going to make ascent of Latok VI for acclimatization and to come back to BC in three or four days.

23, June
Base camp... Bad weather, it's snowing.

18, June
All members of the team are in Skardu now.

15, June
4 members of the team are in Skardu now.

11, June
The team of "BASK-Latok 3" expedition is in Islamabad now. All in the collecting. Everybody are assembled. This year there are a lot of expeditions in Pakistan: 17 to Gasherbrum and 3 to Ogry.Today briefing in the ministry.

A. Klenov, M. Davy.