Kyrgyzstan 09

Unsettled terrain, broad steppes, steep rock faces. In late summer 09 the Mammut pro team Nina Caprez, Stephan Siegrist, David Lama and Giovanni Quirici travelled to distant Kyrgyzstan, where they undertook a spectacular 18-pitch big wall first ascent on Asan (4,230 m) in the untouched Karavshin Valley. Our four Mammut pro team athletes reported for a whole month exclusively via satellite about their impressions of the journey, basecamp life and the ascent directly in Mammut basecamp.

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