The Asgard Project :: Day 1. The Haul Report. We have found a relatively rock fall free line.Chris, Jason, Al, Stanley and Leo set about hauling 300kg up 350meters of steep choss held together by ice. 15 hours later at 5am the exhausted team crawled into their sleepi... View page for full story

• Day 1. The Haul Report.

We have found a relatively rock fall free line.
Chris, Jason, Al, Stanley and Leo set about hauling 300kg up 350meters of steep choss held together by ice. 15 hours later at 5am the exhausted team crawled into their sleeping bags.

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  Day 2

We got bombarded by ice fall from the top of Asgard all night, the chunks where small and we were too tired to care.
We turned a hostile scree slope into a relatively comfortable home.
We have organised the kit ready to climb the wall proper.

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  Day 3

Cold and snowy - Bollocks!
Start leading anyway. Stanley leads the first pitch, wet icy and snowy, but not too hard.
Pitch 2. More of the same.
Difficult transferring from alpine boots to climbing shoes. Difficult to climb with so many clothes and numb hands and feet.
Pitch 3. THE OFF-WIDTH.
Bring out the Yosemite god Stanley.
Titanic battle with a verhglass filled off width. not dissimilar to the Monster Crack on Free Rider. A good Lead.
With the icy rain and with darkness falling we retreat to advanced base camp.

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  Day 4

Windy and cold night but no ice showers.  Difficult to motivate in 2 degrees for hard free climbing.
Early afternoon the weather starts to clear, we are going to go up!
Moral high in the men, their is plenty left in us for the rest of the fight.
We just need a few days of stable weather.
Leo Climbed another pitch this afternoon, which proved to be very hard.  We then retreated to ABC late in the evening as darkness fell.

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  Day 5

We slept through a snow shower and woke to find a cloud inversion on the glacier and snow on the portaledges. The weather is now bright and sunny, and we are going to move the camp higher up the wall.
Water and fuel could be an issue from now on.
Leo and Stanley are going to climb much higher today.