Dispatches - November 2009 http://calpinist.com/site Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:36:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://calpinist.com/site/component/option,com_myblog/show,Thanks!-Upcoming-Events-.html/Itemid,34/ <p class="MsoNormal">A sincere thanks to all of you who have followed along with me on the 2009 Gasherbrum III Expedition.<br /><br />As reported form Pakistan, we did not summit, but managed to establish a route up the lower west face of GIII. We then traversed back into the cwm to 7300meters before Bruce Normand came down with a debilitating altitude illness. When his blood-oxygen saturation dropped to below 40%, things got a little dicey. Despite zero visibility and many harrowing rappels dow [...] info@calpinist.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:00:00 +0100