<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645</id><updated>2011-07-28T17:18:31.980+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GasherDreams 2009</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-1091705795854193728</id><published>2009-09-24T08:41:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-09-24T08:44:03.293+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"&gt;2º ENCONTRO DOS ENTALADOS, DIAS 10 E 11 DE OUTUBRO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Informações brevemente...&lt;/span&gt;acho eu!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-1091705795854193728?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1091705795854193728/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/09/2-encontro-dos-entalados-dias-10-e-11.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1091705795854193728'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1091705795854193728'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/09/2-encontro-dos-entalados-dias-10-e-11.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-8353848124396887934</id><published>2009-08-02T20:57:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-02T21:05:11.359+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ultimas reflexões</title><content type='html'>Ultimas reflexões.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na noite passada saímos do campo base por volta da meia-noite em direcção à face sul do GVI. Uma hora e meia depois,  cruzavamos várias acumulações de grandes avalanches recentes. Um encontro bastante perturbador.&lt;br /&gt;Uma hora depois, passámos a fenda da rimaya e rápidamente atingimos o primeiro esporão de rocha. A neve não estava em más condições mas, por debaixo corria água a jorros.&lt;br /&gt;Três e meia da madrugada e a temperatura encontrava-se acima dos zero graus. O céu estava estrelado e o tempo perfeito mas, nos nossos espiritos começavam a surgir as dúvidas... com o calor do novo dia, como iriamos encontrar a neve lá por cima?&lt;br /&gt;Numa parede com cerca de 2000 metros, como iriamos descer se não encontrassemos condições de gelo para montar instalações de rapel? &lt;br /&gt;Era impensável destrepar uma face tão grande como aquela. Este pensamento e uma grande tristeza acompanharam-nos durante a descida de retirada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deste modo damos por terminada a expedição sem o sucesso desejado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Terminamos com um resumo da actividade:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tinhamos como objectivo principal a escalada do Esporão dos franceses no Gasherbrum II e como objectivo mais ou menos secreto o Gasherbrum VI, com 7004 metros e oficialmente virgem.&lt;br /&gt;O mau tempo constante carregou o GII de neve e impossibilitou uma tentativa realista ao Esporão dos franceses.&lt;br /&gt;No entanto, conseguimos realizar a aclimatação necessária para tentar o GVI. Encontrámos uma possivel linha mais ou menos segura de avalanches na face nordeste da montanha e lançamo-nos a ela.&lt;br /&gt;Escalámos cerca de 800 metros para descobrir uma parede de neve inconsistente, a uns 60 metros da aresta, impossivel de trânspor. Seguiu-se uma sucessão de rapeis e destrepes delicados até à base da parede. Uma aventura que culminou 20 horas depois do seu inicio.&lt;br /&gt;Dias depois decidimos realizar uma tentativa à via normal do GII (uma vez que o Esporão  dos franceses era já um assunto esquecido). Subimos ao campo 1 com a intenção de esperar pelo melhor dia de cume. Nesse dia recebemos a noticia que Luis  (um amigo espanhol que conheceramos  anos antes), desaparecera após uma tardia tentativa de cume no GII. Corria o rumor que tinha caído para a vertente chinesa e que estava morto. As más noticias deixaram-nos perturbados e tristes mas, mantivemos os planos de realizar a nossa tentativa.&lt;br /&gt;Por volta das 21 horas dessa mesma noite foi avistada (também por nós) uma luz de frontal que piscava desde muito alto no GII, na travessia, a cerca de 7700 metros de altitude. Luis estava vivo!&lt;br /&gt;Entre nós e os membros da empresa "Altitude junkies", presentes no campo 1, foi decidida a realização de uma tentativa de resgate. Como sabiamos falar espanhol e inglês, a Daniela e eu voluntariamo-nos para voltar a descer o glaciar até ao campo base de forma a tentar organizar uma equipa de resgate. Infelizmente, uma certa inércia por parte de algumas pessoas e o mau tempo que se instalou nas montanhas nos seguintes dias  impediram a subida da ajuda necessária... e o Luis desapareceu para sempre.&lt;br /&gt;Este dramático acontecimento fez desaparecer também a nossa oportunidade e ânimo para voltar a tentar o Gasherbrum II.&lt;br /&gt;Como derradeira tentativa  e, depois de "limpar" a nossa tenda do campo 1, voltámo-nos para a face sul do GVI.&lt;br /&gt;O resultado desta  incursão encontra-se descrita no inicio deste ultimo relato.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agora, resta-nos esperar pelos carregadores, para pudermos iniciar o trekking de cerca de 100km do Baltoro, que será o principio do regresso ao "nosso mundo".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-8353848124396887934?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8353848124396887934/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/08/ultimas-reflexoes.html#comment-form' title='11 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8353848124396887934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8353848124396887934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/08/ultimas-reflexoes.html' title='Ultimas reflexões'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-1267821051042992072</id><published>2009-08-01T21:50:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-08-01T21:55:32.346+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GVI - aí vamos nós outra vez!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;31-07&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Na moreia do campo base reina o silêncio.&lt;br /&gt;Hoje, algumas equipas voltaram a cruzar o glaciar em direcção ao campo 1. Alguns elementos que compartilhavam connosco o campo base rumaram em direcção a Skardu.&lt;br /&gt;Para além do pessoal das agências, restamos na moreia eu, o Paulo e o Dirk, que amanhã inicia o seu regresso a Skardu.Eu e o Paulo mantemos ainda a esperança de tentar o GVI, mas a meteo não está a querer ajudar. Necessitamos de pelo menos  um dia de sol antes de iniciarmos a escalada  da face de cerca de 2000m que nos separa do cume da montanha que se encontra mesmo à frente dos nossos narizes.&lt;br /&gt;Queriamos sair hoje à noite, mas o dia está cinzento e alguns flocos de neve insistem em aumentar as nossas duvidas e ansiedade. No entanto, preparamos o equipamento para a tentativa... a ultima tentativa.&lt;br /&gt;Será amanhã à noite o inicio de uma fugaz aventura?&lt;br /&gt;As horas tornam-se longas, mas o tempo foge-nos entre os dedos... estranho contra-senso este...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1-08&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta noite vamos iniciar a segunda tentativa ao Gasherbrum VI.&lt;br /&gt;A parede está calma e as previsões apontam para bom tempo até ao dia 5. Não necessitamos de tanto. Com sorte bastam-nos dois dias e meio para subir e descer a via que imaginámos na face sul do GVI.&lt;br /&gt;Nesta próxima noite iremos testar as condições da neve na vertente. Se a coisa se apresentar favorável e segura continuamos, senão... daremos por terminada a expedição.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Daniela&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-1267821051042992072?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1267821051042992072/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/08/gvi-ai-vamos-nos-outra-vez.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1267821051042992072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1267821051042992072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/08/gvi-ai-vamos-nos-outra-vez.html' title='GVI - aí vamos nós outra vez!!!'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-2748533179574934706</id><published>2009-07-28T12:57:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-28T12:59:55.028+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GASHER-REFLECTIONS (Part 3)</title><content type='html'>When we arrived to base camp we went to the spanish group, to let them know Luis was alive, and see if they could organize the helicopter for that same morning.&lt;br /&gt;The next hours were frenetic for us, going frombase camp to base camp to check what could be done. John, a canadian guide, immediately ofered his help, and ofered about 6 botles of oxigen that were in C2, in case they would be needed.&lt;br /&gt;The spanish group (with their agency), organized the helicopter  that because of the bad weather never came.&lt;br /&gt;So, that morning and that day, nothing else happened except movement on base camp. Nobody went up to C1, but the members of Altitude Junkies stayed there monitorising the situation.&lt;br /&gt;That day it snowed and the visibility to the upper part of GII was zero. The clouds only allowed a short view to the mountain somewhere in the afternoon, and by that time there was no sign of Luis. On the spot he was last seen the  night before, it was only snow. Could he be covered by the snow?Could he get down to C4? C3?&lt;br /&gt;Until today, there is no answers.&lt;br /&gt;The day that followed also snowed, and the clouds prevented the helicopter to come, one more time.&lt;br /&gt;It was not posible to go higher than C1 because of the danger of avalanche, so after that second day, the members of Altitude Junkies came down to base camp.&lt;br /&gt;There was no hope anymore.&lt;br /&gt;At the present moment only Jacek Teler could clarify some aspects about what happened to Luis. But Jacek still did not arrive at base camp, as he stayed a few days in C1 and went directly  to try GI, where he still is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our thoughts and opinions about Luis disapearance:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Luis and Jacek pushed to summit at very late hours and with too much wind&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Daniela/Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-2748533179574934706?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2748533179574934706/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasher-reflections-part-3.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2748533179574934706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2748533179574934706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasher-reflections-part-3.html' title='GASHER-REFLECTIONS (Part 3)'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-3406873892284160893</id><published>2009-07-26T21:43:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-28T12:56:39.627+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GASHER-REFLECTIONS (Part 1 and 2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;(We apologize to iranian team, to always use the term "iranian members", but we don't know their names. Not all members were involved in the subjects mentioned in the following text, and also the last post)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(The picture attached is refered to the last post. Arian and Michel, from Altitude Junkies , in C1, with one of the bags of garbage left by some iranians in a crevasse)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GASHER-REFLECTIONS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23-07&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I'm sitting in my base camp tent looking at the clouds that prevent the rescue helicopter to come. My feelings are mixed, sadness, anger, melancoly...I wonder if the title of this post is the right one. It crossed my mind "8000 - the egoism number", "8000 fever", "8000 lies"...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The GASHERDREAMS is now something that belongs to the past, that stays in my heart as a memory of an unfinished reality, a reality that can never come true in a mountain with more than 8000m, and a "normal route", a climbing route that for some, is the route of selfishness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;On the 21 of July me and Paulo crossed again the glaciar separating base camp from C1. The rumors of a good weather window coming on the 24 and 25, made us believe that we still had a chance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This time we were heading for the "normal route" of GII. We gave up the idea to climb the "French Spur" because the snow has accumulated on GII in such a way, that we don't think it's possible for 2 persons to break trail on the upper, less steep, part of this route.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After our attempt on GVI, this one also looks as a remote possibilitie. So, the only thing we felt we had left, although it was not our aim, was to go for the "normal route" on GII.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;At about 11:00 a.m. We arrived inC1 feeling good, decided to give GII a try. The night before, I could barely sleep, the anxiaty keept me awake. While arriving, we recognized a lot of climbers were descending from C3.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The word was that the day before, some iranian climbers had summited GII in a day of strong winds at altitude. Beside the iranians, up there was also a polish climber, Jacek Teler, and a spanish, Luis Barbero, this one a friend of ours. Luis dream was to summit GII, no matter how, and it was his second year attempting to climb it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As time went by in the afternoon, the members of iranian team started to arrive to C1, some of them happy for getting the summit (later we knew that they were close to it, but never made it). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After maybe one hour, curious and worried, me and Paulo decided to ask to some iranian members if they knew something about Jacek and Luis. We were worried about Luis, because we knew the "8000 fever" was consuming him since the beginning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;About Jacek, iranians said he was coming down. About Luis... Luis was missing since the "summit day". We found it strange that until we asked, nobody made any coment about Luis, that he disapeared. As our questions about what happened started to pop up, the members of the iranian team to whom we were talking, started to talk about what happened in the day before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tomorrow (25-07) we'll go to C1 to pick up all our gear. After all that happened, we are feeling sad, and we don't have any motivation to climb GII.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;If we fell ok, and if weather helps, maybe we'll give another try to GVI, this time from the face that stands right in front of base camp (south face)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Daniela/Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362873641961364610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmzBKeRpnII/AAAAAAAAAwk/4adPmqysLas/s400/Arian+and+Michael+with+one+of+the+garbage+bags.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Arian and Michael with one of the garbage bags.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-3406873892284160893?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3406873892284160893/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasher-reflections.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/3406873892284160893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/3406873892284160893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasher-reflections.html' title='GASHER-REFLECTIONS (Part 1 and 2)'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmzBKeRpnII/AAAAAAAAAwk/4adPmqysLas/s72-c/Arian+and+Michael+with+one+of+the+garbage+bags.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-2370474104761798143</id><published>2009-07-24T22:32:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-24T22:41:50.449+01:00</updated><title type='text'>De novo no campo base - back to base camp.</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;Esta mensagem vai em inglês, para que possa chegar a um maior numero de&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;pessoas.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This one and probably the next posts will be in english, because we think it's importante that our message gets to more people. Again, we are in base camp, result of a combination of... a tragic happening and bad weather.&lt;br /&gt;Again, there were some attempts to summit GII, by an iranian mountain federation team, one polish man, and one spanish. One more time, nobody got to the real top of the mountain, the highest point from where one can only go down. Still, the iranian team was celebrating the summiting of some members!&lt;br /&gt;How do we know it?&lt;br /&gt;As a result of a truly sad happening, of witch we'll write about on days to come, and because some members of the iranian team told us (and some other people in BC). Aparently they stopped about 50m from the summit, as the summit ridge was sharp and dangerous, and they did not have enough rope to fix and procced to the summit safely.&lt;br /&gt;Still, they deserve congratulations for getting so close in a very windy day.&lt;br /&gt;BUT we also want to congratulate the members of Altitude Junkies for their great attitude: in camp 1, some members of that same iranian team, fixed a rope to acced a crevasse and through inside 2 huge bags of garbage, in front of Altitude Junkies members.&lt;br /&gt;Imidiately, there was an argument about it! 2 days after (today: July, 23) the members of Altitude Junkies went inside the crevasse, recovered the garbage bags, brought them to base camp and emptied them just in front of the iranians mess tent, in silence. The bags contained gas canisters, plastics, all kind of garbage!&lt;br /&gt;Congratulation guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the tragic happening, we'll write soon, when we feel the moment is right.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About what we shall do...at this moment we realy don't know. The weather is unstable, snowing,and again GII is full of snow, dangerous from C2 up. A second possible line on GVI, is also impossible to try at the moment, because of the danger of avalanches.Also, right now, because of the tragic happening, our mind is not absolutely focus on the montains.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Daniela e Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-2370474104761798143?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2370474104761798143/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/de-novo-no-campo-base-back-to-base-camp.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2370474104761798143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2370474104761798143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/de-novo-no-campo-base-back-to-base-camp.html' title='De novo no campo base - back to base camp.'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-5947389230736132609</id><published>2009-07-21T13:13:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-21T13:17:01.719+01:00</updated><title type='text'>19 e 20 Julho</title><content type='html'>&lt;strong&gt;19-07&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;O já famoso "Jetstream "&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quase toda a gente anda lá para cima, pelos GI e GII, espalhados entre os campos 2 e 3 das respectivas montanhas.&lt;br /&gt;Nós, decidimos ficar pelo campo base e vários nos perguntam: "Why aren`t you up there?". A razão pela qual continuamos aqui por baixo tem a ver apenas com um elemento atmosférico... o vento!&lt;br /&gt;Quase todas as previsões apontavam para ventos muito fortes em altitude para os presentes dias. No entanto, o céu claro animou muita gente a realizar uma tentativa de cume. Hoje, pelo menos no GI, ouvimos falar de uma intenção de cume mas, um inesperado nevão a juntar ao anunciado vento intenso impediram a saída dos alpinistas. Aparentemente, a retirada será inevitável, pelo menos nos próximos dias, aliás, vários regressam já ao campo base e outros abandonam os campos mais altos.&lt;br /&gt;Com a esperança que o tempo melhore para o fim da semana, apontamos para sair na madrugada do dia 21, em direcção ao Gasherbrum II. Assim, talvez tenhamos uma oportunidade de cume lá para os dias 24 ou 25. Pelo menos, esse é o plano actual, de acordo com as ultimas novas da meteo!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;20-07&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Será desta?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finalmente parece estar a chegar a hora de deixar o campo base. A tão esperada aberta está prevista para o final da semana. Corre a palavra de que nos dias 24 e 25 estará bom tempo. Assim, para que haja uma real possibilidade de escalar o GII, "basta" que até esta data não caia um grande nevão, algo que complicaria a subida entre o campo 2 e o 3.&lt;br /&gt;Com estas perspectivas e cheios de ilusão, amanhã cruzaremos o glaciar em direcção ao campo 1 e "Inshala" lá para os dias 24 ou 25...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Daniela e Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-5947389230736132609?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5947389230736132609/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/19-e-20-julho.html#comment-form' title='7 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5947389230736132609'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5947389230736132609'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/19-e-20-julho.html' title='19 e 20 Julho'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-2732954279823510927</id><published>2009-07-18T21:37:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T21:44:31.594+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Gasherbrum GVI - A DESCIDA</title><content type='html'>Com o Sol agora a bater de chofre na face, a retirada do GVI prometia ser dificil. Teriamos de descer precisamente pela mesma linha, o que significava rapelar quase toda a via.&lt;br /&gt;Na verdade, já não existia qualquer urgência em termos de tempo. Agora, o primordial era descer em segurança, independentemente das horas  necessárias.&lt;br /&gt;Os rapeis foram-se sucedendo, geralmente com instalações em "Abalakovs" (pontes de gelo) e algum que outro piton de rocha, apesar da dificuldade em encontrar bons locais onde montar reuniões.&lt;br /&gt;A meio da via, realizamos alguns destrepes assegurados e, finalmente, ao anoitecer, alcançamos as rampas menos inclinadas da base da vertente.&lt;br /&gt;A neve encontrava-se agora nas piores condições e enterravamo-nos até ao joelho e ás vezes até à cintura. De qualquer modo, já não importava, pois já nos encontravamos a salvo.&lt;br /&gt;Ás 21.30, chegámos à tenda, cerca de 20 horas depois de iniciar a aventura.&lt;br /&gt;O dia seguinte foi de descanso e programámos para o outro dia uma subida ao campo II do GII, para melhorar a nossa aclimatação. Mas, uma hora depois de sair da tenda, as nossas pernas não pareciam concordar com a nossa vontade e retornámos pelos nossos passos. Pelo visto, ainda estavamos muito cansados da nossa tentativa.&lt;br /&gt;Descemos até ao campo base, sob um nevão e nevoeiro,  apenas guiados pelos vestigios do trilho no glaciar. A hora da descida não foi a melhor, pelo que de vez em quando, as nossas pernas descobriam novas crevasses!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Até à data, ninguém, com a excepção de Ueli Steck, atingiu algum cume por aqui. O tempo não tem estado muito famoso, as montanhas estão bastante carregadas de neve e as ultimas previsões apontam para ventos da ordem dos 120 km em altitude para os próximos dias.&lt;br /&gt;Quanto a nós, para já, apontamos em direcção à via normal do GII. A quantidade de neve  não nos permite realizar uma tentativa de confiança ao "Esporão dos Franceses", por isso, somos forçados a mudar de objectivo.&lt;br /&gt;Depois, com sorte, talvez ainda nos sobre tempo para uma nova tentativa ao GVI... talvez...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Daniela e Paulo&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmIy6dptgGI/AAAAAAAAAwc/UB4cg-UJJ04/s1600-h/O+rapel[1]...1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359902486497689698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 333px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmIy6dptgGI/AAAAAAAAAwc/UB4cg-UJJ04/s400/O+rapel%5B1%5D...1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt; A    descida&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-2732954279823510927?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2732954279823510927/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasherbrum-gvi-descida.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2732954279823510927'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2732954279823510927'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasherbrum-gvi-descida.html' title='Gasherbrum GVI - A DESCIDA'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmIy6dptgGI/AAAAAAAAAwc/UB4cg-UJJ04/s72-c/O+rapel%5B1%5D...1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-7015349957811769993</id><published>2009-07-17T21:01:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-17T21:16:15.105+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Gasherbrum VI - A SUBIDA (tentativa)</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Há muito que não dizemos nada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ontem, o mau tempo não permitiu carregar a bateria do PDA, por isso, "no news".&lt;br /&gt;Os ultimos 2 dias foram já passados no campo base, após uma tentativa infrutifera ao GVI. Então a história reza assim...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dia 11, com a ideia de que nos dois dias seguintes estaria bom tempo, saimos do campo base em direcção ao "Campo Esperança", uma tenda que deixámos montada algures a meio do glaciar, bem perto da face do GVI que pretendiamos escalar. Pelas 2 da manhã de dia 12, começou uma longa jornada, que teria o seu final, após quase 20 horas de continua acção, pelas 21:30. Saimos do "Campo Esperança" iluminados pela lua, o que fazia pensar que o bom tempo se íria confirmar. Em cerca de 10 minutos, a suave inclinação do glaciar ficou para trás e de repente eramos dois pequenos pontos que pisavamos terreno que nunca antes tinha sentido a preseça humana. Aquela montanha com que tanto sonhamos pareceu de imediato aceitar a nossa presença, a neve estava em condições bastante aceitáveis, o que nos permitiu uma progressão que, nas primeiras horas nos pareceu surpreendentemente rápida. Lá em baixo, no glaciar, vários pontinhos luminosos avançavam em direcção ao campo 1, soubemos mais tarde que esses pontinhos viam também a luz projectada pelos nossos frontais, já na segunda metade da face que escalávamos com alegria. A pendente começou com uns 55° e acentuou-se à medida que subiamos. Progrediamos em "ensamble", colocando algumas protecções aqui e ali, quando o terreno o permitia, um ou outro parafuso de gelo, um ou outro piton em rocha, por vezes protecções confiáveis, por vezes puramente...psicológicas!&lt;br /&gt;A cerca de metade da face, a pendente acentuou-se. As condições do terreno, que com o avançar das horas se foram tornando mais precárias (neve menos consistente), forçaram-nos em certos trechos a montar reuniões, atrasando assim a escalada. Perto das 5 da manhã, quando começaram a surgir os primeiros traços de claridade, tinhamos bem mais de metade da face por debaixo dos nossos crampons, o que nos fez acreditar que pouco depois do nascer do dia conseguiriamos atingir a longa aresta que dá acesso ao cume. Mas o surgir do dia, trouxe consigo duas surpresas, a temperatura subiu bastante e como consequencia, a qualidade da neve e pouco gelo que existia, tornou-se cada vez mais precária.Também a meteorologia nos surpreendeu, o que era suposto ser um bom dia, surgia como um céu sem sol, a despejar incómodos flocos de neve. Percebia-se que o sol queria sair, mas as nuvens que nos envolviam insistiam em dificultar-lhe essa tarefa. De repente, a escalada tornava-se cada vez mais dura, maiores inclinações num terreno cada vez menos confiável e claro... o tempo necessário para ganhar metros à montanha era cada vez maior.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meio-dia, a aresta parecia estar mesmo ali, mas as dimensões enganavam-nos.Os 65° que a pendente agora oferecia, iam ainda acentuar-se! As modestas cornijas vistas do glaciar eram agora enormes tectos de neve, que de quando em vez deixavam cair pequenos troços de gelo. Pequenas avalanches provocadas pelo calor e algumas rochas que se soltavam e zumbiam devido à velocidade, provocavam um stress cada vez maior. O grau de confiança... esse começava a descer. Apesar de muito perto, talvez a cerca de 100m da aresta (e com mais de 700 metros de ascensão cumpridos), a tarefa de a atingir parecia cada vez mais complicada. Olhamos em volta com ideia de montar a tenda, ainda sem saber muito bem se o objectivo do dia seguinte seria continuar, mas à nossa volta, tudo era terrivelmente empinado e exposto, pelo que fomos forçados a admitir que ou iamos para cima... ou para baixo!&lt;br /&gt;- "Paulo, sobe lá mais um bocado, até áquelas rochas, pode ser que dê!"&lt;br /&gt;Apenas mais dois largos de escalada e estariamos na aresta. Numa desconfortável reunião de dois parafusos de gelo, eu asseguráva e o Paulo tentava progredir numa pendente de 70° de gelo de fraca qualidade.&lt;br /&gt;- "Acho que não vou conseguir".&lt;br /&gt;Um segundo depois, vejo o piolet que tinha na mão esquerda a enterrar-se num troço de neve que se desfez como areia. Acima das nossas cabeças erguiam-se uns pequenos esporões de neve vertical perfeitamente inconsistente, resultado da acumulação provocada pelos ventos constantes que sopram do lado oposto da montanha. A culminar esses esporões, algumas cornijas complicavam ainda mais a saída para a tão desejada aresta. Tornara-se impossivel tanto progredir, como proteger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O resultado do esforço estava à vista: teriamos de descer!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(continua)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Daniela Teixeira&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359524844368139746" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmDbczFxleI/AAAAAAAAAwU/ChdTq70IV1k/s400/Daniela+no+GVI.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Daniela no Gasherbrum VI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359524766485922530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 250px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 333px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmDbYQ9NQuI/AAAAAAAAAwM/74sa8zyfYnE/s400/Paulo+no+GVI.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paulo no Gasherbrum VI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-7015349957811769993?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7015349957811769993/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasherbrum-vi-subida-tentativa.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/7015349957811769993'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/7015349957811769993'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasherbrum-vi-subida-tentativa.html' title='Gasherbrum VI - A SUBIDA (tentativa)'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SmDbczFxleI/AAAAAAAAAwU/ChdTq70IV1k/s72-c/Daniela+no+GVI.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-3571010671953288368</id><published>2009-07-15T21:42:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T21:52:00.515+01:00</updated><title type='text'>De regresso ao Campo Base</title><content type='html'>Hoje recebi um telefonema (via satélite)  da Daniela e do Paulo. Transmitiram-me que estão de regresso ao Campo Base em perfeito estado de saúde após a tentativa falhada ao Gasherbrum VI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Também descreveram o panorama das condições das montanhas circundantes (e basta dar uma volta aqui pela web para ver que esta temporada no Baltoro alpinistas nos cumes são quase nulos) que estão extremamente carregadas de neve de pouca consistencia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amanhã vão tentar colocar aqui um post a relatar as vivencias dos últimos dias.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-3571010671953288368?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3571010671953288368/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/de-regresso-ao-campo-base.html#comment-form' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/3571010671953288368'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/3571010671953288368'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/de-regresso-ao-campo-base.html' title='De regresso ao Campo Base'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-1877866760856047218</id><published>2009-07-10T22:17:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-07-10T22:37:15.010+01:00</updated><title type='text'>GASHERBRUM VI  (G6)</title><content type='html'>&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;No passado dia 2, deveria ter aparecido aqui uma mensagem/post escrito pela Daniela e Paulo, acerca das suas intenções do decorrer desta expedição. Mas, devido a problemas técnicos nas comunicações informáticas, a citada mensagem não chegou.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Após uma estadia relativamente longa no Campo Base, e apesar do principal objectivo anunciado para esta expedição ser a ascensão na via «Esporão dos Franceses» no Gasherbrum II (8035 mts), à saída de Portugal havia um segundo objectivo menos divulgado: a primeira ascensão ao “virgem” cume do Gasherbrum VI (7004 mts).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Gasherbrum VI (GVI), é um vizinho dos gigantes G I e G II e do belo e inigualável G IV. Tem cerca de 7004 metros de altitude e nunca antes foi oficialmente escalado. Algumas foram as expedições que tentaram esta codiciada primeira ascensão, mas sem sucesso até à data. Por incrível que pareça, nunca ninguém pisou este cume!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Neste momento, a Daniela e o Paulo estão em plena tentativa de abertura da primeira via ao cume desta grandiosa montanha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seguramente será um êxito!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apesar das escassas informações, em principio esta tentativa decorre sobre a face Nordeste do G VI e sua aresta final (a confirmar!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daniela and Paulo are trying now the first ascent of the unclimbed Gasherbrum VI peak.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SlewG7Zm8ZI/AAAAAAAAAwE/_WzalNwm8dU/s1600-h/face+nordeste+do+GVI+(7004+m).jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356943914851299730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SlewG7Zm8ZI/AAAAAAAAAwE/_WzalNwm8dU/s400/face+nordeste+do+GVI+(7004+m).jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-1877866760856047218?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1877866760856047218/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasherbrum-vi-g6.html#comment-form' title='14 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1877866760856047218'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1877866760856047218'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/07/gasherbrum-vi-g6.html' title='GASHERBRUM VI  (G6)'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SlewG7Zm8ZI/AAAAAAAAAwE/_WzalNwm8dU/s72-c/face+nordeste+do+GVI+(7004+m).jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-490604830984673057</id><published>2009-06-26T17:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-26T17:20:03.614+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Aclimatação - Primeira incursão ao campo 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SkT1M8-QwcI/AAAAAAAAARI/2IzKAihuG2s/s1600-h/Daniela+no+glaciar-703616.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SkT1M8-QwcI/AAAAAAAAARI/2IzKAihuG2s/s320/Daniela+no+glaciar-703616.jpg"  border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351671860097499586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;24 a 26-06-2009&lt;p&gt;3 da madrugada. Um frio moderado acompanha a nossa sa&amp;#237;da do campo base em direc&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o ao campo 1, ou base avan&amp;#231;ado. Atravessamos o enorme glaciar que vence quase mil metros de desnivel. Formamos uma cordada de tr&amp;#234;s. Acompanha-nos Dirk, um simp&amp;#225;tico alem&amp;#227;o que se juntou a n&amp;#243;s para cruzar o glaciar em seguran&amp;#231;a.&lt;br&gt;Dias antes, uma equipa internacional, com o objectivo de abrir uma nova via no Gasherbrum III, tinha j&amp;#225;  marcado todo o trilho. Foi um trabalho que lhes ocupou v&amp;#225;rios dias, devido a desfavor&amp;#225;veis condi&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es de neve e &amp;#224;s labirinticas caracteristicas do glaciar.&lt;br&gt;Aqui fica o nosso agradecimento a esta equipa, que facilitou imenso o acesso, a todos os que pretendem escalar os Gasherbrums. &lt;br&gt;Relativamente ao ano passado, o glaciar encontra-se (por enquanto) em optimas condi&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es. N&amp;#227;o sentimos saudades nenhumas dos amea&amp;#231;adores blocos de gelo outrora pendiam sobre as nossas cabe&amp;#231;as, nem das grandes crevasses, que punham &amp;#224; prova as nossas capacidades atl&amp;#233;ticas (e mentais!).&lt;br&gt;Nesta primeira  incurs&amp;#227;o, demoramos sete horas para alcan&amp;#231;ar o campo 1.&lt;br&gt;Para curar a caminhada e relembrar a nossa t&amp;#227;o rica gastronomia, juntamos ao corriqueiro ch&amp;#225;, um belo naco de salpic&amp;#227;o. Como se tal n&amp;#227;o fosse absolutamente compensador, um salm&amp;#227;o em molho de tomate e bas&amp;#237;lio acalmou as nossas mentes (e est&amp;#244;magos) famintos.&lt;br&gt;A noite n&amp;#227;o tardou em chegar e decorreu com normalidade, entenda-se normalidade como: a Daniela em (quase) perfeitas condi&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es (n&amp;#227;o se livrou de uns ataques de tosse, residuos da crise de sinusite) e eu com uma cl&amp;#225;ssica dor de cabe&amp;#231;a!&lt;br&gt;Por volta das cinco da manh&amp;#227;, com o frio a morder-nos os ossos, retorn&amp;#225;mos ao campo base, onde chegamos muito a tempo de tomar o pequeno-almo&amp;#231;o. &amp;#201; incrivel, como as longas sete horas para subir, se transformaram em escassas duas e meia para regressar!&lt;br&gt;C&amp;#225; por baixo, voltamos a dedicar-nos &amp;#224; vidinha f&amp;#225;cil de campo base, preparando desta forma a pr&amp;#243;xima etapa da aclimata&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o, antes de tentar escalar... qualquer coisa!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-490604830984673057?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/490604830984673057/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/aclimatacao-primeira-incursao-ao-campo.html#comment-form' title='5 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/490604830984673057'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/490604830984673057'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/aclimatacao-primeira-incursao-ao-campo.html' title='Aclimatação - Primeira incursão ao campo 1'/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SkT1M8-QwcI/AAAAAAAAARI/2IzKAihuG2s/s72-c/Daniela+no+glaciar-703616.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-6443189912020219406</id><published>2009-06-23T22:24:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T22:30:32.918+01:00</updated><title type='text'>CAMPO BASE</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;22 e 23 de Junho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que bem que sabe o descanso por estas bandas, e que bem que sabe utilizar novamente o nariz para respirar. As recuperações a esta altitude são mais demoradas mas cremos que estamos com as condições mínimas para darmos um “pulinho” ao Campo Base Avançado ou Campo 1. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Pois é, amanhã por volta das três da madrugada vamos rever o enorme pedaço de gelo que nos separa da verdadeira base do GII, aquele labirinto gigante que outrora tanto tempo e atenção nos absorveu. Desta vez temos uma pequena vantagem, outros já trilharam o caminho com o que, com sorte, basta-nos seguir o rasto de “crampons” e não perder as bandeirolas de vista. Mas, não nos devemos safar a umas boas 7 ou 8 horas até atingir-mos o lugar para repousar os ossos aos cerca de 6000 metros. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Connosco irá também um Alemão com quem partilhamos o Campo Base. Conhecemos já um pouco a peça e faremos seguramente uma divertida cordada de três… o numero que Deus fez!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A meteorologia adivinha-se favorável para os próximos dias, tal como esteve nos dois últimos. Os raios com que o sol nos tem brindado são essenciais para secar o “cuecame”!!!   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Daniela e Paulo&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-6443189912020219406?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6443189912020219406/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/campo-base.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/6443189912020219406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/6443189912020219406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/campo-base.html' title='CAMPO BASE'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-1642390298165607278</id><published>2009-06-21T23:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T16:54:42.529+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Gore II-Shangri-Campo base</title><content type='html'>18 a 21-06-2009&lt;p&gt;Em Gore II mais um acordar sob um  g&amp;#233;lido manto de neve... G&amp;#233;lido o suficente para os carregadores se recusarem a avan&amp;#231;ar. Assim, fomos for&amp;#231;ados a ter um dia extra de repouso. &lt;br&gt;A caminhada de dia 19, entre Gore II e Shangri aos 4700 metros, poderia ter decorrido normalmente, se n&amp;#227;o nos tivessem enchido os cantis com &amp;#225;gua com um insuport&amp;#225;vel sabor estranho.&lt;br&gt;Incompreensivelmente, o nosso staff colocou a &amp;#225;gua para beber num barril onde antes estivera combustivel, pelo que esta ganhou um inconfundivel sabor a petr&amp;#243;leo. A consequencia foram tr&amp;#234;s horas de caminhada a seco com toda a gente a reclamar em Concordia, onde por for&amp;#231;a das reclama&amp;#231;&amp;#245;es conseguimos obter alguns liquidos.&lt;br&gt;P&amp;#243;s Concordia,at&amp;#233; ao campo de Shangri,  para mim (Daniela) a coisa foi penosa, nem as belas vistas sobre as montanhas foram suficientes para atenuar uma terrivel dor de garganta, press&amp;#225;gio de uma grande crise de sinusite!&lt;br&gt;Entre Shangri e o campo base &amp;#233; que foram elas: um misto entre a desidrata&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o e intoxica&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o do dia anterior, &amp;#224; mistura com o efeito dos medicamentos contra a sinusite e com a pr&amp;#243;pria sinusite, transformaram o trek final numa  verdadeira odisseia, especialmente nas primeiras horas da manh&amp;#227;. Pouco a pouco, fui melhorando, mas ainda assim, o que deveria ter sido uma simples caminhada de 2,5h, transformou-se numa tortuosa viagem de 4h. &lt;br&gt;O resto do dia, foi para merecido descanso, assim como o dia de hoje...nada melhor para come&amp;#231;ar a recuperar da narigota inflamada!&lt;br&gt;O Paulo?&lt;br&gt;Est&amp;#225; muito bem e recomenda-se!&lt;br&gt;Espero estar como ele dentro de um ou dois dias, para fazermos a primeira incurs&amp;#227;o no glaciar e assim iniciarmos oficialmente o processo de aclimata&amp;#231;&amp;#227;o.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-1642390298165607278?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1642390298165607278/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/gore-ii-shangri-campo-base.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1642390298165607278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1642390298165607278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/gore-ii-shangri-campo-base.html' title='Gore II-Shangri-Campo base'/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-7899819778044258962</id><published>2009-06-17T23:29:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T22:03:49.460+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Paiju-Urdukas-Gore II</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p class="mobile-photo"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SjkL5s70wZI/AAAAAAAAARA/l1GWeVd9LbE/s1600-h/17-06-2009-782390.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348319118421705106" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SjkL5s70wZI/AAAAAAAAARA/l1GWeVd9LbE/s320/17-06-2009-782390.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;16 e 17-06-2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paiju-Urdukas-Gore II&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ontem foi o dia mais longo, de Paiju a Urdukas, 6,5h.&lt;br /&gt;O mau tempo teima em acompanhar-nos e desta presenteou-nos com névoa e flocos de neve. As frescas roupas do ano passado, deram lugar a forros polares e pela noite, a casacos de penas!&lt;br /&gt;As montanhas observam-nos agora com um aspecto invernal, fora do comum nesta altura do ano.&lt;br /&gt;Hoje tivemos um surpreendente acordar. O campo de Urdukas, aos 4000m, despertou sob um fino véu de neve, suficiente para desmotivar os carregadores a iniciar a sua marcha. Finalmente, por volta das 8 da manhã, os mais fortes decidiram-se a começar a marcha motivando os restantes a avançar.&lt;br /&gt;Em poucos instantes, formou-se uma mega caravana de carregadores, salpicados pelos coloridos alpinistas, que se dirigem para os Gasher's e Broad Peak (talvez alguns para o K2).&lt;br /&gt;Desta não tivemos direito às fabulosas vistas sobre o Masherbrum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quanto a mim (Paulo), quero deixar uma beijoca de parabéns à Daniela (mesmo aqui ao lado), que faz hoje anos. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Confesso que é a primeira vez que vejo nevar no meu dia de anos!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348403253801887682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjlYbBpnp8I/AAAAAAAAAv8/hbv8CJFg-7A/s400/A+caminho+de+Urdukas,Trango.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A caminho de Urdukas, Trango&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348403128312123122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjlYTuKhzvI/AAAAAAAAAv0/RiHXY_veI14/s400/A+chegar+a+Urdukas,+Catedrais.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A chegar a Urdukas, Catedrais do Baltoro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348402582109634866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjlXz7ZtQTI/AAAAAAAAAvk/XsQBXnulCZM/s400/A+caminho+de+Goro+II,+Masherbrum.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A caminho de Goro II, Masherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348402144757797506" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjlXaeI50oI/AAAAAAAAAvc/sCV9hzkbfSg/s400/GIV.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Gasherbrum IV&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-7899819778044258962?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/7899819778044258962/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/paiju-urdukas-gore-ii.html#comment-form' title='9 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/7899819778044258962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/7899819778044258962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/paiju-urdukas-gore-ii.html' title='Paiju-Urdukas-Gore II'/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SjkL5s70wZI/AAAAAAAAARA/l1GWeVd9LbE/s72-c/17-06-2009-782390.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-1007129871431280758</id><published>2009-06-15T15:07:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T08:42:27.865+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Skardu-Askole-Johla-Paiju</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SjXzRFNm6vI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/Ua207-sqYtQ/s1600-h/a+caminho+de+julha+1-768378.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347447607354911474" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SjXzRFNm6vI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/Ua207-sqYtQ/s320/a+caminho+de+julha+1-768378.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;12 a 15-06-2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tudo este ano está diferente, o comum com 2008 é apenas o percurso.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre Skardu e Askole, a viagem decorreu com uma inesperada tranquilidade e um inesperado conforto, mas... ao contrario do ano passado, já não somos dos primeiros da época, outras expedições coincidem com a nossa nas jornadas até à base das montanhas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Os 40 carregadores de 2008, são hoje mais de 500, repartidos pelos diversos grupos. Encontramos Askole, Jhola e Paiju, transformados num antro de tendas e confusão, apesar de dizerem que este ano, o assédio ao Karakorum é muito inferior.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Longe vai a tranquilidade do ano passado.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A temperatura, está bastante mais baixa, desta vez ideal para caminhar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Os picos, bastante mais nevados, o que faz despertar a nossa curiosidade... qual o aspecto dos Gasherbrum`s?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desta, em Paiju houve realmente a tradicional e barulhenta festa de carregadores, à qual se juntaram alguns ocidentais.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoje, descanso merecido, não pelo cansaço físico, mas pela cabeça pesada, resultado da ultima noite de barafunda!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347456341515214754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjX7Nefsn6I/AAAAAAAAAvU/lOnc50veLXk/s400/Dia+livre+no+campo+de+Paiju.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-1007129871431280758?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/1007129871431280758/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/skardu-askole-johla-paiju.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1007129871431280758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/1007129871431280758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/skardu-askole-johla-paiju.html' title='Skardu-Askole-Johla-Paiju'/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SjXzRFNm6vI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/Ua207-sqYtQ/s72-c/a+caminho+de+julha+1-768378.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-8576429115923593869</id><published>2009-06-14T23:10:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-14T23:20:47.276+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chegada a Paiju&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Chegámos hoje a Paiju e ficamos por cá a descansar amanhã.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Mais novidades amanhã!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV2IMgVJsI/AAAAAAAAAvM/SR4oE8hAIKM/s1600-h/A+caminho+de+Jhula.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347310015740192450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV2IMgVJsI/AAAAAAAAAvM/SR4oE8hAIKM/s400/A+caminho+de+Jhula.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;A caminho de Jhula&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV17Kv4vxI/AAAAAAAAAvE/OkRmd-d5akQ/s1600-h/A+caminho+de+Jhula+2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347309791930269458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV17Kv4vxI/AAAAAAAAAvE/OkRmd-d5akQ/s400/A+caminho+de+Jhula+2.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Novamente a caminho de Jhula&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV1wNIDHdI/AAAAAAAAAu8/nKdmiMvrR4Y/s1600-h/A+caminho+de+Paiju.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347309603589922258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV1wNIDHdI/AAAAAAAAAu8/nKdmiMvrR4Y/s400/A+caminho+de+Paiju.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt; A caminho de Paiju&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV1pKnqUsI/AAAAAAAAAu0/pb4Ntk4mnGo/s1600-h/DepÃ³sitos+de+terraÃ§o+a+caminho+de+Paiju.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347309482658124482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV1pKnqUsI/AAAAAAAAAu0/pb4Ntk4mnGo/s400/Dep%C3%B3sitos+de+terra%C3%A7o+a+caminho+de+Paiju.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;Depósitos de terraço a caminho de Paiju&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-8576429115923593869?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8576429115923593869/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/chegada-paiju-chegamos-hoje-paiju-e.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8576429115923593869'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8576429115923593869'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/chegada-paiju-chegamos-hoje-paiju-e.html' title=''/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjV2IMgVJsI/AAAAAAAAAvM/SR4oE8hAIKM/s72-c/A+caminho+de+Jhula.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-5297767380625081332</id><published>2009-06-12T21:30:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T21:46:56.727+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;De Skardu para Askole&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"&gt;Realizámos a viagem de &lt;em&gt;jeep&lt;/em&gt; para Askole sem contratempos, apesar do caminho de cabras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"&gt;Amanhã iniciamos a marcha de aproximação ao Campo Base.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346545162016076658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjK-f2WNM3I/AAAAAAAAAt8/0_mkv5e9FAA/s400/De+skardu+para+Askole.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;De Skardu para Askole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346544577104970562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjK99zYiA0I/AAAAAAAAAt0/_5sW3vcbDVE/s400/Em+askole.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Em Askole&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-5297767380625081332?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5297767380625081332/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/de-skardu-para-askole-realizamos-viagem.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5297767380625081332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5297767380625081332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/de-skardu-para-askole-realizamos-viagem.html' title=''/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjK-f2WNM3I/AAAAAAAAAt8/0_mkv5e9FAA/s72-c/De+skardu+para+Askole.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-3917506549865714795</id><published>2009-06-11T10:19:00.007+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-12T21:50:20.477+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;  &lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;SKARDU NON-STOP&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Aos amigos &lt;strong&gt;Larau &lt;/strong&gt;que fez anos ontem e &lt;strong&gt;Miguel Vila&lt;/strong&gt; que faz hoje...PARABÉNS!!!! Bebam um caneco por nós (que por aqui é lei seca!). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Ufa ufa, já estamos em Skardu, após uma longa viagem de 26h enjaulados num pequenito autocarro. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Desta vez, fizemos a viagem directamente de Islamabad sem paragem para dormir. Saímos às 23:00 de dia 10, para chegar à 1:15 de dia 12. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Connosco viajaram os futuros companheiros de campo base (3 polacos e um alemão) e dois trekkers (inglês e canadiano), tudo boa gente. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Cá fica a confissão: estamos todos partidos!!! Valha-nos as 9 horas de sono hoje, para recuperar as já 3 noites quase sem dormir! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Para nossa surpresa, as montanhas à volta de Skardu apresentam-se com muito mais neve do que no ano passado. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Soubemos também, que no seco trekking que fizemos o ano passado até ao campo base, há já alguns centímetros de neve! Adivinha-se portanto, que as montanhas devem estar bastante mais carregadas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;De resto, o normal por estes lados, depois das compras básicas, falta-nos fazer o "puzzle dos quilos", conseguir enfiar 25kg certinhos em cada um dos 6 bidões a levar para o campo base...não queremos danificar para lá da conta, os costados dos nossos carregadores! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Hoje acabam-se os contactos com a civilização, desde aqui, nada mais de Internet, cama fofinha e banho de chuveiro (viva o mau cheiro!!!!)...tudo isto fica esquecido durante a expedição.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Mas daremos noticias regulares (o mais regulares que conseguirmos!) pelo telefone satélite...aguardem-nos! eheheheh &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;E por ai, tudo bem? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Quem tem feito praia? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Quem tem escalado? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Contem-nos de vocês!!!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Até...quando dermos noticias! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346545963591582466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjK_OgcswwI/AAAAAAAAAuM/LoAri-eJ8A8/s400/Skardu.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5346545801520895538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjK_FEsCVjI/AAAAAAAAAuE/xnzijMS5Xl8/s400/Skardu2.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-3917506549865714795?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/3917506549865714795/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/skardu-non-stop-aos-amigos-larau-que.html#comment-form' title='4 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/3917506549865714795'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/3917506549865714795'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/skardu-non-stop-aos-amigos-larau-que.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/SjK_OgcswwI/AAAAAAAAAuM/LoAri-eJ8A8/s72-c/Skardu.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-8968993301970235298</id><published>2009-06-09T12:19:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-09T19:32:33.911+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISLAMABAD&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Islamabad já chegámos, após longas horas de voo, esperas nos aeroportos...e alguma fome :).&lt;br /&gt;Ainda com o sono...mal amanhado, vamos sair daqui para Skardu ainda esta noite de carro (...que azafama!). A ideia é fazer a viagem directamente até Skardu, ou seja, esperam-nos cerca de 26h de viagem pela Karakorum Highway (que de verdadeira highway não tem nada!) até à capital do Baltistão.&lt;br /&gt;Depois, está prometido um dia de semi-descanso e duas noites para recompor os sonos.&lt;br /&gt;Curiosa foi a nossa passagem pelo aeroporto de Londres, em que ao pequeno almoço, as primeiras palavras que escutamos foram em português "ouve lá, não sou nenhuma palhaça", dizia uma das pessoas que estava a servir para um outro! Claro que ao ouvir isto, em vez do tradicional "Excuse me", recorremos ao "Por favor"...muita sorte não dizermos "Olha lá, ò meu!".&lt;br /&gt;Por agora é tudo, mais novidades de Skardu...em princípio.&lt;br /&gt;Até breve...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-8968993301970235298?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8968993301970235298/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/islamabad-desculpem-la-falta-de-acentos.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8968993301970235298'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8968993301970235298'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/islamabad-desculpem-la-falta-de-acentos.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-2880439090486516487</id><published>2009-06-08T15:44:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T15:48:35.535+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Partida</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/Si0ks-Fm2oI/AAAAAAAAAtc/P1PlN99rqAw/s1600-h/DSC02527.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344968687758006914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 299px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/Si0ks-Fm2oI/AAAAAAAAAtc/P1PlN99rqAw/s400/DSC02527.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ontem pelas 18h35 a Daniela e o Paulo partiram com destino a Islamabad (capital do Paquistão) via Londres, para darem inicio a mais esta expedição.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Muito boa sorte a ambos!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-2880439090486516487?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/2880439090486516487/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/partida.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2880439090486516487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/2880439090486516487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/partida.html' title='Partida'/><author><name>Miguel Grillo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04372749997565543359</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5-ht_b_i7OE/Si0ks-Fm2oI/AAAAAAAAAtc/P1PlN99rqAw/s72-c/DSC02527.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-5357750129261514995</id><published>2009-06-03T10:16:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T15:26:49.070+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; 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 &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Às 18:35 de Domingo (7 de Junho), entramos no avião para Londres, iniciando assim o percurso que nos levará ao sopé do Gasherbrum II.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;We’re almost going...we’re already not counting the days, but the hours.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;At &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:time minute="35" hour="18"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;18:35&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:time&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;, next Sunday (7&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of June), we get in the plain heading to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;, starting the journey that will lead us to Gasherbrum II&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Após 1 ano o nosso sonho volta a transformar-se em realidade. Não foi fácil percorrer os dias que nos separaram desta aventura. Não foi fácil, mas passamos por eles cheios de entusiasmo e a acreditar sempre que era possível voltar (apesar de vermos as nossas carteiras cada dia mais vazias, já que desta, a expedição saiu-nos financeiramente do bolso...todinha!).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;After one whole year our dream came true. It was not easy to go by the days separating us of this adventure. It was not easy, but we lived them with enthusiasm, and believing at all times that it would be possible to go back (even when our wallets where getting more and more empty everyday, since we paid ourselves for this expedition…all of it!).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Relembro uma frase de um livro do Luís Sepúlveda, que desde que a li permanece na minha cabeça “Só consegue voar quem se atreve a faze-lo”.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Esta simples frase resume o percurso percorrido até aqui. Foi a acreditar e a trabalhar para este projecto, que o vamos conseguir realizar.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;I now remember a sentence I once read in a Luís Sepulveda book, “It can only fly, the ones who dare to try it”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;This simple sentence explains all the way we’ve been to get here. It was believe and working hard for this expedition that we can now go for it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Quebrando o romantismo e passando ao prático, deixamos aqui o programa de festas, para que saibam mais ou menos por onde andamos. Claro está que a coisa não é linear, nestas aventuras impera o planeamento à vista...mas cá vai (desculpem ir só em inglês, é que este é o plano escrito pela agencia que nos acompanha até ao campo base...já não tenho cabeça para traduzir tudo para português):&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;We now paste the approximate party program, so that you know more or less where we are. Of course this can change, in this kind of adventures one cannot plan it all, but here it goes…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;PRÓXIMAS NOVIDADES...JÁ DO PAQUISTÃO!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;ATÉ BREVE...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; Next post already from Pakistan...see you...&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SikqjRSNC3I/AAAAAAAAAQw/sq9yHLN4zkU/s1600-h/DDD.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SikqjRSNC3I/AAAAAAAAAQw/sq9yHLN4zkU/s400/DDD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343849218275347314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;(O dia 1 será 9 de Junho, dia em que chegamos a Islamabad. Dia 11 de Agosto, voamos de volta a Portugal)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;(Day 1 will be 9th of June, when we will arrive in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;Islamabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;. On the 11&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of August, we fly back to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;Portugal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="color:blue;"&gt;)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 01 &amp;amp; 02 ARRIVAL &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;RAWALPINDI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; / &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;ISLAMABAD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Upon arrival met and transfer to hotel in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Rawalpindi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;After a short rest drive to &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Islamabad&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;, Ministry of Tourism to complete the necessary formalities and obtain climbing permit. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 03 RAWALPINDI/SKARDU&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Fly to Skardu, If unable to fly, same day we will drive to Skardu 2300m, spending a night in Chilas. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAKY 04 SKARDU&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Emergency day in case, flight does not operate on day 03 this day will be use to transfer the members by road from Chilas to Skardu. Total drive time from &lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;Islamabad&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; to Skardu is 22-24 hours. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 05 SKARDU&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Final arrangement for the expedition. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 06 SKARDU -TO- ASKOLE&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Embark jeeps for a full day ride on a winding jeep trail to Askole 3050m - The last village on our way to the Great Glaciers. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. Distance 96 Km, Drive 07-08 Hrs. Altitude 3050 M. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Note :-The road to Askole comes undergoing rapid erosion and gets closed quite often. If unable to jeep, the group will disembark &amp;amp; walk to Askole on the same day or camp for overnight (subject to distance). &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 07 ASKOLE -TO- KOROPHONE &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Today we leave the last inhabited village. For the remaining portion of our journey we rely on our porters who carry our food and equipment for the expedition. After scrambling over a ridge we come across what legend says an old polo field. Passing through a rock gap we cross the Biafo glacier and camp beside its snout at korophone. The &lt;b&gt;Biafo Glacier&lt;/b&gt; is a huge river of ice 63 Km long which descends from the central peaks of the Karakoram &amp;amp; flows East into the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Braldu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Valley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; at a point about 10 Kms east of Askole. Overnight in tents All meals served by camp staff. Walk : 03 - 04 hrs, Grade : Easy, Altitude : 3100 M, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 08 KOROPHONE -TO- JHULA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Trek to the Dumurdo river cross at Jhula, (Jhula means wire rope bridge sported by a wooden basket), now a wooden bridge is made cross it &amp;amp; camp beside a torrent facing the Bakhordas. Walk : 03-04 hrs, Grade : Strenuous, Altitude : 3150 M &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 09 JHULA -TO- PAIJU&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Resume trek along the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Braldu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;River&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; to a green Oasis under the shadows of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Paiju&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Peak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; 6611 M. Paiju - is a Balti word which means "SALT". Since there are some rock salt deposits at the base of this peak, the locals believe that the snow on the summit of Paiju Peak is not snow but a huge deposit of salt which drips down to the base. From this camp we have the first views of the impressive Baltoro Glacier. Overnight in tents. Walk : 05-06 hrs, Grade : Moderate, Altitude : 3480 M. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 10 PAIJU - Rest Day&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Rest &amp;amp; acclimatization day at Piaju. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 11 PAIJU -TO- URDUKAS &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Begin trek after an early breakfast. Traverse the junction of Paiju - Baltoro Glaciers through crevasses &amp;amp; lunch  below Liligo, the traditional camp under the muddy cliffs with fine views of rock spires. Cross the Khuburse torrent early morning and ramble over two glacier moraines to reach the grassy slopes of Urdukas offering splendid views of the Trango, Uli Biaho &amp;amp; Bial Groups. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. Walk : 06-07 hrs,  Grade : Moderate,  Altitude : 4130 M &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 12 URDUKAS -TO- GORO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;A long walk on the icy Baltoro Glacier. Traverse the Yermanandu Glacier which flows down from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Masherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &amp;amp; joins the Baltoro. Magnificent views of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Muztagh&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, Mitre &amp;amp; Gasherbrum IV. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. Walk : 06-07 hrs, Grade : Strenuous,  Altitude : 4500 M. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 13 GORO TO CONCORDIA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After an early breakfast, resume a long walk on the Baltoro Glacier to a point called Concordia - a huge junction of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Baltoro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:state&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Abruzzi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &amp;amp; Godwin Austin Glaciers at 4000 meters . Within a short radius of 15 Kilometers, stand 41 peaks over 6500 meters. including 04 peaks above 8000 M. The 360 view offers a panorama of peaks nowhere to be found on this Earth. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. Walk : 05 - 06 hrs,  Grade : strenuous,  Altitude : 4720 M. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 14 CONCORDIA REST DAY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Final day of trek to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Gasherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; base. A 4-6 hrs trek will bring you to the base of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Gasherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, here you will say good bye to your porters for about 5 weeks. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. Walk : 04-06 hrs, Grade : strenuous, Altitude : 4650 M. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 15 CLIMBING&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2 style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12;"&gt;DAY 56 CLIMBING&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;41 days of non guided climb will start from today. During the climbing period our staff will be at base camp to help and assist you.  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10;"&gt;  &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY  57 TREKKING BACK TO ALI CAMP &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After an early breakfast leave the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;K2&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; base camp and we will cross Concordia and several side glacier to reach our right path. After 4-5 hours we will reach Vigne glacier, it is also possible to walk on the Vigne glacier which is fairly easy then walking on the stony bath on the right side of the glacier but it depend on the snow condition. Overnight in tents.. &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 58 ALI CAMP -CROSS GONDOGORO PASS- KHUSPANG &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;A very early start as early as 2 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:time minute="0" hour="3"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;3 O’clock&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:time&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; does in the morning to cross the Gondogoro la to reach Khuspang. &lt;b&gt;The &lt;/b&gt;basic theme behind the early walk to reach the top of the Gondogoro Pass 5700 meters is that in the morning snow will be soft and you will not get tired quickly as the sun is not strong, but as sun get strong snow get soft, snow going to be melt and bring water and stones,  also the chance of ice falls or avalanches. Overnight in tents. All meals served by camp staff. Walk : 10 - 11 hrs,  Grade : Strenuous,  Altitude : 5700 M &lt;b&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 59 KHUSPANG -TO- SHAICHO &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After a couple of minutes of easy walk we will comes onto the glacier. You pick your way across moving boulders and ice, finally crossing the glacier up to the camping site to reach &lt;b&gt;Dalsangpa, &lt;/b&gt;meaning &lt;b&gt;'field of flowers', &lt;/b&gt;lives up to its name. It is a beautiful campsite at about 4,150 meters, set between two lakes, with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Masherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Mountain&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; and the white glacier cascading down from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Masherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:placetype&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Pass&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; reflected in the still water. Resume trek along the path, Keep yourself on the left side of the lateral moraine, crossing several side streams. The next hour is an unpleasant scramble along the stony, sliding glacier edge, with huge boulders poised above, ready to fall. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Continue your trek along the path goes down hill to the summer settlement called &lt;b&gt;Shaicho&lt;/b&gt;, a large shepherds settlement with its won mosque, now here you can find a hotel and mountaineering equipment shop. This is the traditional camp among the forest of juniper, cedar and willow trees with giant bushes of wild roses and a good water supply. Walk : 07-08 hrs, Grade : Moderate, Altitude :. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 60 SHAICHO -TO- HUSHEY &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;After breakfast continue your walk along the Hushey river on a easy path. Upon arrival camp near the fields in Hushey village. An easy day will bring you to Hushey village. Evening free. Overnight in tents. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 61 HUSHEY -TO- SKARDU&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;AM :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt; Embark jeeps for a full day ride on a winding jeep trail to Skardu. Upon arrival transfer to &lt;b&gt;your chosen hotel&lt;/b&gt;. All meals included. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 62 SKARDU - RAWALPINIDI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;"  lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Early in the morning fly to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Islamabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, if unable to fly same day drive to Gilgit. Overnight hotel. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 63 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;RAWALPINDI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Upon arrival transfer to your hotel in &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Rawalpindi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. Evening sightseeing. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;If unable to fly on day 62. this day will be use to transfer from Gilgit to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Islamabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; by road. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 64 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;RAWALPINDI&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;De-briefing at Ministry of Tourism &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Islamabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;. Evening free &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;DAY 65 FLY BACK HOME&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Transfer to airport for your onward flight to abroad. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;End of our services &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-5357750129261514995?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5357750129261514995/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html#comment-form' title='0 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5357750129261514995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5357750129261514995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SikqjRSNC3I/AAAAAAAAAQw/sq9yHLN4zkU/s72-c/DDD.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-4592113532235175125</id><published>2009-06-01T15:30:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-05T15:13:59.871+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;Aos Amigos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SiPulgiejVI/AAAAAAAAAQg/YfFc79AgJ5s/s1600-h/Copy+of+Gasherbrum+2+069.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SiPulgiejVI/AAAAAAAAAQg/YfFc79AgJ5s/s400/Copy+of+Gasherbrum+2+069.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342375911148653906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pois é, este um post mais delicado, pois não queremos esquecer ninguém!&lt;br /&gt;Por isso, aos que se sentirem esquecidos, o nosso obrigado pela amizade e pelo apoio que nos têm sempre dado.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No último fim-de-semana, ao verificarmos as ligações entre PDA e telefone satélite, encontramos alguns mails que nos enviaram no final da última expedição (sim sim, a dos Gasherbrum’s) e que ainda não tínhamos lido.&lt;br /&gt;Um deles vinha da Teresa Leal e do João Gaspar e datava de dia 15/08/2009, aqui fica um excerto:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;“.....Nem sei se vêm estes mails e os outros que vos enviámos mas, estamos MUITO FELIZES por ter noticias vossas.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;Pregaram-nos cá um susto... sabíamos que nada de grave poderia ter acontecido mas, tantos dias sem noticias... e tantos dias lá em cima..., depois ocorreu-me a única hipótese possível na minha cabeça: “o telefone satélite avariou e não podem comunicar, é só isso, nada mais”... o Grillo ia sendo a central de informações e mal disfarçava a preocupação de não ter noticias. Já andávamos em brain storming a desenhar um plano de comunicação, informação, pesquisa, procura, qualquer coisa, quando recebo dele a mensagem: “soube agora que chegaram ao campo base e que estão bem!” –nas primeiras palavras senti um alivio, algo físico que desceu pelas costas...”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;É tão bom ler estes mails, fazem com que regressemos àquelas montanhas ainda com mais vontade, mais motivação e mais felizes. É assim o apoio dos amigos, é muito bom saber que mesmo longe, estão sempre perto de nós.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um grande obrigado...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Miguel Grillo e Ema, muuuuuuiiiiiiiiito obrigado pela vossa sempre presente amizade e apoio e pela ajuda que vão dar na manutenção deste blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Um enooooormeeeee obrigado a um Mouro especial, um Lisboeta de primeira, o “Mister” António Cabral, que continua a treinar-me para que lá por cima, ande cada vez mais e arfe cada vez menos (é preciso uma certa paciência para te aturar, mas quem se mete nas montanhas, tende a cultivar este dom ehehehe). Treinador e amigo, é o que se quer! :) Melhor é difícil!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Um “Obrigado Carágo!” ao Pedro Guedes e à Espaços Naturais, que para além da amizade, sempre nos apoiou com material. Pedro, desta não recorremos a ti de uma forma directa para a expedição, porque já tínhamos o material que nos ofereceste o ano passado – o fato de plumas deu para o Paulo um bom pijama de altitude (e não só :) ).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bruno Gaspar (Brunex  para os amigos) e Clube de Montanhismo da Figueira da Foz, levamos a t-shirt verde que vocês tão bem conhecem!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Miguel Vila e João Cunha, colegas que me aguentam dia após dia após dia após dia... Que seria de mim sem o vosso apoio!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Viaponte, a empresa onde trabalho, por respeitar e permitir a concretização destes sonhos.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mário Pardo e Sara, por uma ajuda de ultima hora ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aos pais Teixeiras e Roxos, por nos porem no mundo, por nos aturarem, por se preocuparem, por ficarem felizes quando sorrimos, por nos fazerem como somos. Bem sabemos que serão 2 meses de preocupação...esse peso partilhamos convosco, mas breve estaremos todos juntos novamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A todos os que aqui não constam, mas que sabemos que estão perto e levamos no coração.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pelas serras do Karakorum, convosco vamos formar a mega cordada mais bonita do planeta, a cordada da amizade.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-4592113532235175125?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4592113532235175125/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/aos-amigos-pois-e-este-um-post-mais.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/4592113532235175125'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/4592113532235175125'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/06/aos-amigos-pois-e-este-um-post-mais.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SiPulgiejVI/AAAAAAAAAQg/YfFc79AgJ5s/s72-c/Copy+of+Gasherbrum+2+069.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-4356139097654054985</id><published>2009-05-26T09:02:00.009+01:00</published><updated>2009-06-01T10:19:57.027+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dmaker.pt/"&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 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e &lt;a href="http://www.vipole.it/"&gt;Vipole&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/Shui4f9z-JI/AAAAAAAAAQY/xu7eEJ9OZKU/s1600-h/Pub+Rab+Faders+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/Shui4f9z-JI/AAAAAAAAAQY/xu7eEJ9OZKU/s400/Pub+Rab+Faders+023.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340040874714986642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt; 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a utilizar são novinhas, assim como os &lt;a href="http://www.faders.es/productos/index.cfm?fam_id=902"&gt;capacetes&lt;/a&gt; e toda a panóplia de &lt;a href="http://www.faders.es/productos/index.cfm?fam_id=1&amp;amp;tip_id=6"&gt;mosquetões&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.princetontec.com/?q=node/60"&gt;Luz&lt;/a&gt;, também não vai faltar...só se for por falta de pilhas...mas como a Princetontec não as fabrica, esse item é da nossa inteira responsabilidade!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt; 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 &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Aqui fica o nosso obrigado à D’Maker e ao Carlos Vieira, por nos apoiar mais uma vez..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;On this one, we want to thank D’Maker, the portuguese distributor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt; of the brands &lt;a href="http://www.faders.es/"&gt;Faders&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.edelweiss-ropes.com/"&gt;Edelweiss&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.princetontec.com/"&gt;Princetontec&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.trekneat.com/en/trekn-eat-products/"&gt;Trek’n’Eat&lt;/a&gt; e &lt;a href="http://www.vipole.it/"&gt;Vipole&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;D’Maker is with us for a year, it was already our equipment partner in the expedition Gasherbrum 2008, and is now again supporting us in Gasherdreams.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;It’s currently safe to say that we’ll have &lt;a href="http://www.trekneat.com/en/trekn-eat-products/products/katadynshopconnect/trekn-eat-dessert/"&gt;chocolate mousse and vanilla rice pudding&lt;/a&gt; at 7000m hight, and we’ll spare our legs in the long 100 km trekking until base camp with a good pair of poles.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;We’ll use new &lt;a href="http://www.edelweiss-ropes.com/anglais/cordes-alpines-us.html"&gt;ropes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.faders.es/productos/index.cfm?fam_id=902"&gt;helmets&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.faders.es/productos/index.cfm?fam_id=1&amp;amp;tip_id=6"&gt;carabineers&lt;/a&gt;. We’ll also not miss proper &lt;a href="http://www.princetontec.com/?q=node/60"&gt;light&lt;/a&gt;…only if we miss the batteries…but since Princetontec is not making those, that item is entirely our responsibility!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"&gt;So again, thank you D’Maker, and Carlos Vieira, for the support once again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-4356139097654054985?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/4356139097654054985/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/dmaker-normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexp.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/4356139097654054985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/4356139097654054985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/dmaker-normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexp.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/Shui4f9z-JI/AAAAAAAAAQY/xu7eEJ9OZKU/s72-c/Pub+Rab+Faders+023.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-8587698385076881405</id><published>2009-05-21T08:19:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-21T08:45:04.790+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;(Desta resolvemos partir os agradecimentos em 3 partes: EQUIP, D’Maker e Amigos)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.equipuk.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;a&gt;EQUIP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a&gt; Outdoor Technologies&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/"&gt;RAB&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.podsacs.com/"&gt;PodSacs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; 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  &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Há uns tempos atrás, espreitei diversas vezes a página da RAB. Cobiçava os casacos de penas da marca, porque me pareciam ideais para a actividade a que nos propomos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Uma pequena tenda prendeu também a minha atenção, pesava somente 2,2kg! Era o peso ideal para repartir entre as minhas costas e as do Paulo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Pela página da RAB, cheguei à PodSacs. Confesso que não conhecia esta marca, mas do que vi, as mochilas disponíveis tornaram-se...bastante apetecíveis. Em parte pela especificidade dos detalhes e claro está...pelo peso, ou melhor, pela leveza!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Quanto mais conhecia das marcas, mais interesse tinha no material. Facilmente percebi porque estava tão bem concebido, é que é feito por alpinistas, para alpinistas! É desenhado por gente conhece bem as necessidades em cada actividade, porque são praticantes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Certo dia lá me decidi a contacta-los, e após várias trocas de mails, com conselhos sobre qual o equipamento mais indicado para a expedição, foram feitas as escolhas. Pouco depois chegou uma caixa em que, para além dos casacos de penas que tanto cobiçamos (&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/down_insulation/neutrino_andes_jacket---21/"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;Neutrino Andes Jacket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/down_insulation/neutrino_andes_jacket---21/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/down_insulation/summit_batura_jacket---27/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Summit Batura Jacket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;), recebemos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rab.uk.com/expedition_gear/accessories/expedition_mitts---34/"&gt;luvas de expedição&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;, casacos &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/vapour-rise/"&gt;Vapor-rised&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.podsacs.com/packs.html"&gt;mochilas PodSacs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; e a nova tenda da RAB (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rab.uk.com/equipment/bivvis/summit_superlite_bivi---139/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Summit Superlite Bivi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;) que em vez de ter 2,2kg, tem 1,5!!!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Como contrapartida, muito nos agradou que a principal preocupação fosse o darmos feed-back do material que vamos levar, para que este possa ser melhorado ainda mais.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Aqui fica o nosso obrigado à Equipuk, à qual pertencem as marcas RAB e PodSacs e à Nikki, com quem contactei frequentemente.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Obrigado, pelo apoio e pela eficiência.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Thank you guys!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/ShUAp80pUVI/AAAAAAAAAPg/aj6tGoQwsME/s1600-h/composicao.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/ShUAp80pUVI/AAAAAAAAAPg/aj6tGoQwsME/s400/composicao.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338173654019166546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Some time ago, I peeked several times at RAB’s web page. I was looking for some down jackets and 2 of their models looked great for the climb we have planned.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;There was also a small tent catching my attention, weighing 2,2kg! I imagined it would be the ideal weight to share between my back and Paulo’s.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;Through RAB’s page I found out about Podsacs and I must confess I wasn’t aware of this brand!  I investigated further and the backpacks available became very…attractive to us. Partly because of the designers obvious attention to detail, the high technical specification and of course…because of the weight, or…the lack of it!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;The more I saw the materials and gear available, the more my interest grew. It was easy to understand why the gear was so well specified. It’s because it is designed by alpinists, for alpinists. By people that understand the athletes needs in every activity, because they practice it themselves.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;One day I decided to contact RAB, and many emails were exchanged, advice offered and decisions made. So at last our package arrived! In addition to the much wanted down jackets (&lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/down_insulation/neutrino_andes_jacket---21/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Neutrino Andes Jacket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/down_insulation/summit_batura_jacket---27/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Summit Batura Jacket&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), we also received &lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/expedition_gear/accessories/expedition_mitts---34/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Expedition Mitts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/clothing/vapour-rise/"&gt;Vapour-rise Jackets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.podsacs.com/packs.html"&gt;Podsacs&lt;/a&gt; and the new tent &lt;a href="http://www.rab.uk.com/equipment/bivvis/summit_superlite_bivi---139/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;Summit Superlite Bivi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, that instead of 2,2kg has 1,5kg!!!!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;As a feed-back, it pleased me a lot to realise that their main concern was that we made reports about the gear, in a way that they can make it even better.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;So we want to thank Equipuk, RAB and PodSacs for the support for Gasherdreams expedition, and Nikki, with whom we had frequent contact.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:&amp;quot;;font-size:12;"  &gt;Thanks you guys, for your support, and efficiency!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-8587698385076881405?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/8587698385076881405/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexplorer4_21.html#comment-form' title='2 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8587698385076881405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/8587698385076881405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexplorer4_21.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/ShUAprgl7qI/AAAAAAAAAPY/cPJ6bPCDEKc/s72-c/1Pub+Rab+Faders+016.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-5689066887181698346</id><published>2009-05-15T16:10:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T10:19:48.487+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;ESPORÃO DOS FRANCESES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Gasherbrum II (8035m) is located in the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Karakorum range&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;, in the Islamic Republic f &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Pakistan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The name of this mountain was given by the Balti people, and it is the second highest mountain in the group of the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Gasherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;’s (meaning “Shining wall”).&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The first ascent was done by the Austrians Larch, Wilenpart and Moravec, in July 1956, after almost 3monthes of expedition.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVAgbNeI/AAAAAAAABJY/GVRa_K4uXCw/s1600-h/Gasherbrum+281.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVAgbNeI/AAAAAAAABJY/GVRa_K4uXCw/s400/Gasherbrum+281.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336068828975281634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;O espectacular Chogolisa, durante a marcha de aproximação ao campo base.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The spectacular Chogolisa, seen during the trekking to base camp.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;A escalada foi realizada pela aresta sudoeste, hoje adoptada como via normal da montanha.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;A segunda ascensão foi protagonizada pelos internacionalmente famosos alpinistas Franceses, Marc Batard e Yannick Seigner, passados 19 anos da conquista da montanha.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Estes escolheram o esporão Sul para a sua escalada de 1975.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Desde então, essa via ficou conhecida como: “Esporão dos Franceses”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;They climbed by the southwest spur, that is now the normal route.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The second ascent was done by the internationally famous French alpinists, Marc Batard and Yannick Seigner, 19 years after the first climb of the mountain.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" lang="EN-GB"&gt;They chose to ascent through the south spur in 1975. Since then, their line of ascent is known as “The French Spur”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2Gh40Et2I/AAAAAAAABKA/MaDPNqeNe3c/s1600-h/IMG_0287.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2Gh40Et2I/AAAAAAAABKA/MaDPNqeNe3c/s400/IMG_0287.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336069050248509282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;A Daniela, na entrada do Esporão dos Franceses.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;;"&gt;Daniela, in the beginning of "The French spur".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Na época de 2008, depois de aclimatar na via normal até aos 7000 metros, tentámos escalar o Esporão dos Franceses em estilo alpino. Entrámos pela linha que nos pareceu mais óbvia e segura, pela direita de uma grande torre de rocha, continuando por uma aresta muito afiada que conduziu a outra aresta inclinada antes de instalar-mos a tenda numa plataforma (que tardámos quatro horas a cavar!) aos 6500 metros.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;In 2008, after acclimatizing in the normal route reaching 7000 m, we tried to climb “The French Spur” in alpine style. We began our ascent following the way that looked more obvious and safe, we climbed a face on the right-hand of a great rock tower, and then a very sharp crest that lead to another. We managed to camp (after spending 4 hours to dig a small platform) at 6500m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVWXlWxI/AAAAAAAABJg/DBBa5GxP4wk/s1600-h/Gasherbrum+II+226.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVWXlWxI/AAAAAAAABJg/DBBa5GxP4wk/s400/Gasherbrum+II+226.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336068834843777810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Na "aresta afiada".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;On the sharp crest&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Até aí, a escalada revelou-se mais dura que o calculado. Por várias vezes tivemos de montar reuniões no gelo e proteger determinadas passagens. No entanto, estávamos decididos a continuar até receber a mensagem do Vitor Baía que nos informava que a frente de mau tempo tinha-se adiantado relativamente ao previsto.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" lang="EN-GB"&gt;The climb was harder than what it looked like from below. Quite a lot of times, we had to belay in the ice, to be safer in some steps. Still, we were motivated to keep climbing, until receiving a message from Vitor Baía, informing us that bad weather was coming sooner then expected.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2Gh_vnLTI/AAAAAAAABKI/90R8zCdAEuk/s1600-h/IMG_0296.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2Gh_vnLTI/AAAAAAAABKI/90R8zCdAEuk/s400/IMG_0296.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336069052108844338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;A "aresta afiada" vista de cima.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;The sharp edge as seen from above.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;No dia seguinte, uma travessia horizontal exposta de escalada mista, com uns 60 metros, demorou-nos mais de duas horas a realizar.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Contas rápidas determinaram que era-nos impossivel alcançar o cume antes do mau tempo cair sobre as montanhas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Abortámos assim, a nossa tentativa destrepando e rapelando directamente, desde o ponto em que desistimos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;On the second day, a horizontal and exposed traverse involving mixed climbing in rotten rock, with about 60m, took us 2 hours to go through.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;We then realised that it would be impossible to reach the summit without being caught by the bad weather.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;So, we aborted our attempt and downclimbed and rappelled directly to the glacier, right from the point where we were.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVSmlM9I/AAAAAAAABJo/F1nk8TQZ6sM/s1600-h/Gasherbrum+II+242.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVSmlM9I/AAAAAAAABJo/F1nk8TQZ6sM/s400/Gasherbrum+II+242.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336068833832940498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Momentos antes de desistir.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Moments before starting our descent.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;De volta a casa e, após alguma investigação, descobrimos que não existem referências de expedições terem entrado na via pela direita da torre rochosa inicial. Sem o saber, acabámos por inaugurar uma variante de entrada ao Esporão dos Franceses.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Este ano retornamos à mesma via.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;O nosso plano consiste em, mais uma vez, aclimatar na via normal do GII e posteriormente, tentar a ascensão do Esporão dos Franceses em estilo ligeiro.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Back home, after some investigation, we found out that there was no info. about any expedition starting to climb that line where we started. Without knowing, we had just opened an entry variant on “The French Spur”.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;This year, we decided to try that line again.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Our plan is, once again, acclimatize on the normal route of GII and then go for “The French Spur” light style.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVRhILUI/AAAAAAAABJw/-bAnlt1Ilq4/s1600-h/Gasherdreams+Franceses.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVRhILUI/AAAAAAAABJw/-bAnlt1Ilq4/s400/Gasherdreams+Franceses.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336068833541631298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2Gh3yrhFI/AAAAAAAABJ4/K5wMuxK8ZzU/s1600-h/Gasherdreams+normal.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2Gh3yrhFI/AAAAAAAABJ4/K5wMuxK8ZzU/s400/Gasherdreams+normal.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336069049974228050" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Um aspecto curioso é o facto de a linha que sonhamos escalar, estar intimamente ligada ao nascimento da Daniela. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;No dia 17 de Junho de 1975 Marc Batard e Yannick Seigner preparavam-se para iniciar a escalada que os levaria ao cume do GII, através do esporão sul, nunca antes subido. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Por cá, mais ou menos pela mesma altura, tendo em conta a diferença horária, a Daniela anunciava o seu nascimento, chorando a plenos pulmões.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Quase 34 anos volvidos, contamos os dias que faltam para regressar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt; 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 &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;On the late hours of the 17&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of June of 1975, Marc Batard and Yannick Seigner were getting ready to start the climb that would lead them to the summit of GII (accomplished on the 18&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; of June), following the south spur, never climbed before.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;At about the same time, taking in account the different timetables, Daniela was born, crying out loud for the first time.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-GB"&gt;Almost 34 year later, we are counting the days to go back there.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);" class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Paulo Roxo&lt;/p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-5689066887181698346?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/5689066887181698346/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/esporao-dos-franceses-normal-0-21-false.html#comment-form' title='1 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5689066887181698346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/5689066887181698346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/esporao-dos-franceses-normal-0-21-false.html' title=''/><author><name>Paulo Roxo</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02158834606300353075</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cu-Gtg3FQR0/Sg2GVEp7quI/AAAAAAAABJQ/ngFJ_Z8a9Dk/s72-c/Gasherbrum+2+041.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1726448991276463645.post-6445670781964858471</id><published>2009-05-07T10:34:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T10:26:49.077+01:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Passamos quase um ano a sonhar, a olhar para inúmeras fotos do Gasherbrum II (8035m), a avaliar a possibilidade de voltar. Passamos um ano com as carteiras quase vazias. A certeza de uma nova aventura surgiu no dia 3 de Abril, dia em que arriscamos comprar os bilhetes de avião com destino a Islamabad.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Desde aí, o nosso dia a dia voltou a entrar num ritmo condicionado pela expedição, a motivação nos treinos cresceu ainda mais, revemos todo o material para avaliar as nossas necessidades, optimizamos alguns itens, imaginamos estratégias, sonhamos com o que será a nossa realidade durante os meses de Junho e Julho.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Somos agora invadidos por mil questões, será que vamos encontrar menos gelo na via que queremos escalar? Será que a meteo nos vai ser favorável? Será...? 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	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;A única resposta que temos como certa é que não vai ser uma ascensão fácil, mas será certamente mais uma experiência inesquecível. A única resposta que temos como certa é que queremos tentar mais uma vez a ascensão da linha que há um ano atrás nos fez sonhar, o “Esporão dos Franceses” no Gasherbrum II.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;A escolha não foi imediata. Pensámos noutras montanhas, noutras possíveis aventuras, noutros locais perdidos pelas cordilheiras do mundo. Perguntámo-nos vezes sem conta, com tantas montanhas por descobrir, porque voltar exactamente ao mesmo local? À mesma montanha?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;A resposta era sempre a mesma, ali, no “Esporão dos Franceses”, no GII, está a via que ainda hoje sonhamos escalar, e se o nosso sonho está ali, porque fugir dele?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Esta foi a pergunta a que nunca conseguíamos responder e a falta de resposta conduziu-nos de volta a esta bonita montanha.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;“O Esporão dos Franceses” foi amor à primeira vista, iluminou a nossa imaginação desde o primeiro dia.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; 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Aliás, a nossa tentativa em 2008, mostrou-nos que a via é mais difícil do que aparenta quando vista cá de baixo.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Mas mesmo sabendo das dificuldades, vamos. Vamos com esperança que os astros se conjuguem, que a via esteja em condições de ser escalada, que a montanha nos acolha, que o vento não passe de uma suave brisa e que o sol nos aqueça nos dias cruciais.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Vamos dia 7 de Junho.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt;&lt;meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"&gt;&lt;meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 10"&gt;&lt;link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CDNTEIX%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"&gt;&lt;o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"&gt;&lt;/o:smarttagtype&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt;  &lt;w:worddocument&gt;   &lt;w:view&gt;Normal&lt;/w:View&gt;   &lt;w:zoom&gt;0&lt;/w:Zoom&gt;   &lt;w:hyphenationzone&gt;21&lt;/w:HyphenationZone&gt;   &lt;w:compatibility&gt;    &lt;w:breakwrappedtables/&gt;    &lt;w:snaptogridincell/&gt;    &lt;w:wraptextwithpunct/&gt;    &lt;w:useasianbreakrules/&gt;   &lt;/w:Compatibility&gt;   &lt;w:browserlevel&gt;MicrosoftInternetExplorer4&lt;/w:BrowserLevel&gt;  &lt;/w:WordDocument&gt; &lt;/xml&gt;&lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;!--[if !mso]&gt;&lt;object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"&gt;&lt;/object&gt; &lt;style&gt; st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face 	{font-family:Century; 	panose-1:2 4 6 4 5 5 5 2 3 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;}  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0cm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} --&gt; &lt;/style&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 10]&gt; &lt;style&gt;  /* Style Definitions */  table.MsoNormalTable 	{mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; 	mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; 	mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; 	mso-style-noshow:yes; 	mso-style-parent:""; 	mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; 	mso-para-margin:0cm; 	mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	mso-pagination:widow-orphan; 	font-size:10.0pt; 	font-family:"Times New Roman";} &lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16pt;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);font-family:Century;" &gt;Why return to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);font-family:Century;" &gt;Gasherbrum&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);font-family:Century;" &gt; II?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16pt;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);font-family:Century;" &gt;“In the summer of 2008 we decided to climb one of the giants of the earth in alpine style. In Gasherbrum II, a little higher than 8000m, we found what we were looking for, an aesthetic line that allowed a clean ascent, with no fixed ropes and no previous high altitude camps, at least we were going to try…sadly, we didn’t make it to the summit.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 16pt;"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);font-family:Century;" &gt;So this dream led reality, the reality of an adventure without an end. 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The confirmation of our new adventure came on the 3rd of April, co-incidentally the very same day that we had taken a risk and already paid for our flights to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city&gt;&lt;st1:place&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Islamabad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;From that moment on, daily life was once again driven by the expedition. The motivation in our workouts grew even more, we revised all our gear checking our needs, we optimised some items, imagined strategies, dreamed about what will be our reality in June and July.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;A thousand questions drop in our minds…will we find less ice on the ascent line? Will the weather be more favourable? Will…? Will...?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;The only answer we have for sure is that the ascent we choose to go for will not be an easy one, but it will surely be another unforgettable experience. We are certain that we want to try again to ascend the line that one year ago caught our attention, the “French Spur” in Gasherbrum II.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;Our choice was not immediate. We thought about going for other mountains, searching for other possible adventures, in lost places in other mountain ranges of the world.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;We asked ourselves countless times: with so many mountains still to discover for us, why are we going back exactly to the same place, to the same mountain? The answer is always the same, there, in GII, the “French Spur” is the line that we still dream to climb, and if our dream is there, why run away from it?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;The “French Spur” was love at first sight, it enlightened our imagination since the first day we saw it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;This time we will attempt the same line using the same strategy, acclimatising on the normal route, and going for the “French Spur” all at once, light style, no oxygen, no porters and no fixed ropes.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;We are well aware that stepping on the summit of GII this way will not be an easy task! Our attempt in 2008 showed us that the line is harder than it appears to be when we look at it from below.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;But even though we are aware of the difficulties, we go filled with optimism, hoping that the line will be in better climbing conditions, that the mountain will give us the chance to climb it, that the wind will be little more than soft breeze and that the sun will shine for us in the crucial days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 15pt;"&gt;We will leave to Islamabad on the 7th June.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1726448991276463645-6445670781964858471?l=gasherdreams.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/feeds/6445670781964858471/comments/default' title='Enviar comentários'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html#comment-form' title='5 Comentários'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/6445670781964858471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1726448991276463645/posts/default/6445670781964858471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gasherdreams.blogspot.com/2009/05/normal-0-21-microsoftinternetexplorer4.html' title=''/><author><name>Daniela Teixeira</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15109334717336297846</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_s6G-SJkweG0/SgKroVa0kDI/AAAAAAAAAOw/qTrLmLvdL7g/s72-c/Copy+%282%29+of+_DSC6496.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry></feed>
