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Weather does not improve and neither do forecasts but, against the clock (days pass inexorably) and forced by boredom and desperation, any slight sign has been enough for many of them to rush up the slope. Photo gallery included.

Oscar Gogorza. Barrabes reporter at K-2

If there’s something good about weather forecasts, it is that it doesn’t matter how worrying they are; each one can interpret them as he/she wants. In K2 base camp any reference to meteorology begins to be irritating and the most widespread game insists on seeing improvements in the smallest details. As an example, a 60 km/h wind is always better than one of 80, but this does not necessarily mean that expeditions are able to dig their climbing equipment out. However, desperation is desperation, and it starts to legitimise anything. With the last weather forecast in hand, just these base camp members would have dared to do it. Miguel Ãngel Vidal interpreted it with great generosity, with an almost childlike optimism and all the Spanish people who were waiting for a verdict, left his breakfast tent with renewed hopes. Some of them towards Cesen; others towards Broad Peak. Two days later, we cursed the weather, the weather forecast and a few more things, but not Miguel Ãngel, the one who triggered the excursions who all of us were seeking.

Mikel Zabalza and Jordi Tosas drew a quick composition of the spot: before leaving, they just had a week, enough time to tackle K2 from Abruzos spur, their new aim once the Polish route project was left. So they decided to tackle Broad Peak, two-days climbing and they extended their project towards me, delighted with leaving base camp. We left very early in the morning, with a more than acceptable weather. For the first time in a few days, we also saw K2 and in 6 hours and 30 minutes time we reached Broad Peak camp 2 from our base camp. Korean and German footsteps helped things a lot: the 1,200 metres of height which are from the beginning of the way to camp 2 have an inclination of 40 degrees, elegant and with overwhelming views over K2, which seems two eight thousanders one upon the other. We doubted about the possibility of reaching camp 3, but weather worsened at the moment of reaching camp 2 and we decided to go on with the original idea. Moreover, Jordi carried a five-kilograms board, sometimes on his back, sometimes dragging it, offering a curious image which astonished the porters we met on the way. We were right: at 6 p.m. wind started to blow hard. At 8 a.m. of the following day it blew in the same way. We ran down the way. Jordi Tosas ran very little: taking shelter behind a rock, he put on his snowboard while I wondered if he really knew what he was doing. Obviously, he knew. He slid down a slope which reaches 4.3 E 4 in extreme ski scale. That is, a serious issue, with snow “that doesn’t forbidâ€, a lot of ice, avalanche remains… It still seems a miracle looking at a “surfer†in the middle of an eight thousander steep slope, unaware of those who climb up and down along their fixed ropes, neck turned towards heights or towards the safety of base camp.

JORDI`S SURF DESCENT PICTURE GALLERY


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