Back from Khumbu, Nepal!
This expedition was a failure. Or?
I didn’t reach the summit I was aiming for. But everything else.
I’m a big believer in the how is way bigger and more important than the what, and in that sense the climb was just perfect. Like a big puzzle with all the pieces but one, the summit one.
In 1963 the late Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoled made a first ascent of this beautiful route. It was a pleasure to follow their footsteps for a little. My climb started climbing a steep couloir to reach the west shoulder, the conditions there were horrible, blue ice underneath with a top layer of deep snow, 2 steps up and one down for 1000m! When I reached the ridge it was very windy so I stayed under a cornice for 3h to calm down while enjoying watching the queues of climbers from both nepali and tibetan normal routes making their progression. After the wind calmed I continued the ridge and traversed on mixed terrain towards the feet of the Hornbein couloir. I felt great and conditions were perfect. After a few hundred meters on the couloir a wind pocket (I suppose recently created from the morning winds) broke and I got carried down in the avalanche for about 50m. I doubted whether to continue or to turn around and decided the latter. The downhill was interesting, with heavy snowfall that made me use the @corosglobal “back to start” feature following my way up, since visibility was 2-3m and my tracks were under deep snow.
Well, a great day in the mountains, where everything was beyond perfect except I didn’t reach the summit.
Visit NNormal’s link in bio for more details.
📸 @julien_rai @bertranddelapierre
Back from Khumbu, Nepal!
This expedition was a failure. Or?
I didn’t reach the summit I was aiming for. But everything else.
I’m a big believer in the how is way bigger and more important than the what, and in that sense the climb was just perfect. Like a big puzzle with all the pieces but one, the summit one.
In 1963 the late Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoled made a first ascent of this beautiful route. It was a pleasure to follow their footsteps for a little. My climb started climbing a steep couloir to reach the west shoulder, the conditions there were horrible, blue ice underneath with a top layer of deep snow, 2 steps up and one down for 1000m! When I reached the ridge it was very windy so I stayed under a cornice for 3h to calm down while enjoying watching the queues of climbers from both nepali and tibetan normal routes making their progression. After the wind calmed I continued the ridge and traversed on mixed terrain towards the feet of the Hornbein couloir. I felt great and conditions were perfect. After a few hundred meters on the couloir a wind pocket (I suppose recently created from the morning winds) broke and I got carried down in the avalanche for about 50m. I doubted whether to continue or to turn around and decided the latter. The downhill was interesting, with heavy snowfall that made me use the @corosglobal “back to start” feature following my way up, since visibility was 2-3m and my tracks were under deep snow.
Well, a great day in the mountains, where everything was beyond perfect except I didn’t reach the summit.
Visit NNormal’s link in bio for more details.
📸 @julien_rai @bertranddelapierre
Back from Khumbu, Nepal!
This expedition was a failure. Or?
I didn’t reach the summit I was aiming for. But everything else.
I’m a big believer in the how is way bigger and more important than the what, and in that sense the climb was just perfect. Like a big puzzle with all the pieces but one, the summit one.
In 1963 the late Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoled made a first ascent of this beautiful route. It was a pleasure to follow their footsteps for a little. My climb started climbing a steep couloir to reach the west shoulder, the conditions there were horrible, blue ice underneath with a top layer of deep snow, 2 steps up and one down for 1000m! When I reached the ridge it was very windy so I stayed under a cornice for 3h to calm down while enjoying watching the queues of climbers from both nepali and tibetan normal routes making their progression. After the wind calmed I continued the ridge and traversed on mixed terrain towards the feet of the Hornbein couloir. I felt great and conditions were perfect. After a few hundred meters on the couloir a wind pocket (I suppose recently created from the morning winds) broke and I got carried down in the avalanche for about 50m. I doubted whether to continue or to turn around and decided the latter. The downhill was interesting, with heavy snowfall that made me use the @corosglobal “back to start” feature following my way up, since visibility was 2-3m and my tracks were under deep snow.
Well, a great day in the mountains, where everything was beyond perfect except I didn’t reach the summit.
Visit NNormal’s link in bio for more details.
📸 @julien_rai @bertranddelapierre
Back home, back to ski!
Just back from Nepal, my neighbor @davidlindgrenguide sent me a message to go ski some couloirs…
In the 70 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled Everest, rising global temperatures have put the mountain in danger.
In the next 70 years, two-thirds of glaciers on the region’s mountains will disappear if we do not take urgent action to #SaveOurSnow
Breaching the 1.5 degrees threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement will unleash catastrophe across the Hindu Kush Himalayas: jeopardising the lives and livelihoods of 240 million people in the mountains and 2 billion more people downstream.
We should ask our leaders to take action, and individually to use the tools we have for it. And I acknowledge I’m a part of the problem. The footprint of my last travel and expedition in this mountain was not small: 2T/CO2e. And even if I try to do changes on my lifestyle, my relation to sport (travels to events, gear development, etc) and advocacy, I have a long way to go, so better to not listen to me but the ones who really know like the scientists at @_icimod
📸 @julien_rai , @_icimod
In the 70 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled Everest, rising global temperatures have put the mountain in danger.
In the next 70 years, two-thirds of glaciers on the region’s mountains will disappear if we do not take urgent action to #SaveOurSnow
Breaching the 1.5 degrees threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement will unleash catastrophe across the Hindu Kush Himalayas: jeopardising the lives and livelihoods of 240 million people in the mountains and 2 billion more people downstream.
We should ask our leaders to take action, and individually to use the tools we have for it. And I acknowledge I’m a part of the problem. The footprint of my last travel and expedition in this mountain was not small: 2T/CO2e. And even if I try to do changes on my lifestyle, my relation to sport (travels to events, gear development, etc) and advocacy, I have a long way to go, so better to not listen to me but the ones who really know like the scientists at @_icimod
📸 @julien_rai , @_icimod
In the 70 years since Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled Everest, rising global temperatures have put the mountain in danger.
In the next 70 years, two-thirds of glaciers on the region’s mountains will disappear if we do not take urgent action to #SaveOurSnow
Breaching the 1.5 degrees threshold enshrined in the Paris Agreement will unleash catastrophe across the Hindu Kush Himalayas: jeopardising the lives and livelihoods of 240 million people in the mountains and 2 billion more people downstream.
We should ask our leaders to take action, and individually to use the tools we have for it. And I acknowledge I’m a part of the problem. The footprint of my last travel and expedition in this mountain was not small: 2T/CO2e. And even if I try to do changes on my lifestyle, my relation to sport (travels to events, gear development, etc) and advocacy, I have a long way to go, so better to not listen to me but the ones who really know like the scientists at @_icimod
📸 @julien_rai , @_icimod
Exercising at high altitude is very demanding. To understand what are the adaptations and responses of being exposed to high altitudes to better adapt in the future and to know more precisely how our body works has been always one of the main motivations of training and exercising for me. In the recent expedition in Himalaya I could collect some physiological and metabolic data during the different climbs. Now it’s just a bunch of numbers but hopefully in some time we are able to organize and interpret all that and know a bit more.
@phymolab
📸 @bertranddelapierre
Exercising at high altitude is very demanding. To understand what are the adaptations and responses of being exposed to high altitudes to better adapt in the future and to know more precisely how our body works has been always one of the main motivations of training and exercising for me. In the recent expedition in Himalaya I could collect some physiological and metabolic data during the different climbs. Now it’s just a bunch of numbers but hopefully in some time we are able to organize and interpret all that and know a bit more.
@phymolab
📸 @bertranddelapierre
3rd week in Nepal comes to an end.
Some time in the mountains, where you feel so small and fragile as an ant in the desert. It’s so humbling and inspiring at the same time…
And time with Emelie and the girls, running, hiking, playing in the forest…I’m marveled seeing them grow in this environment.
📸 @bertranddelapierre @julien_rai
@nnormal_official
3rd week in Nepal comes to an end.
Some time in the mountains, where you feel so small and fragile as an ant in the desert. It’s so humbling and inspiring at the same time…
And time with Emelie and the girls, running, hiking, playing in the forest…I’m marveled seeing them grow in this environment.
📸 @bertranddelapierre @julien_rai
@nnormal_official
3rd week in Nepal comes to an end.
Some time in the mountains, where you feel so small and fragile as an ant in the desert. It’s so humbling and inspiring at the same time…
And time with Emelie and the girls, running, hiking, playing in the forest…I’m marveled seeing them grow in this environment.
📸 @bertranddelapierre @julien_rai
@nnormal_official
3rd week in Nepal comes to an end.
Some time in the mountains, where you feel so small and fragile as an ant in the desert. It’s so humbling and inspiring at the same time…
And time with Emelie and the girls, running, hiking, playing in the forest…I’m marveled seeing them grow in this environment.
📸 @bertranddelapierre @julien_rai
@nnormal_official
The best advice I ever got in my career it was to not think about the races but about progression.
As a young athlete I had some talent and I loved working hard so after a couple of years I started winning some skimo races in the young categories, I was selected to go to international competitions and started dreaming of winning those races. At that point my coach at the moment, Maite, told me not to think about the races and the results I wanted or expected to do – the world championships, the world cup – but to think and focus about the process, about training and seeking progression. Since then, even if winning races is fun and a good motivation to train or to test myself, my focus has been always to progress. Focusing on the goal might be a short term good strategy to get super motivated and do hard work but it has a lot of downside, if the result is not as expected – and in racing that can come from many factors, some of them without our control – it’s easy to get frustrated and loose motivation. Also when reaching the goals we can sit there thinking we’ve accomplished what we wanted and don’t look further. At the end, we will be racing only a few days every year but we will be training every day, so I believe we should put the focus on the training, on the process and trusting that this will eventually lead us to good results.
📸 @julien_rai
Running.
“the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself”
Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Happy international running day.
📸 @julien_rai
Chatting a bit with @huwmjames about how I found Everest, the new season of the @athleteclimateacademy and a bunch of other things!
📷 @julien_rai
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“Failure is a big part of sport”
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“In Tromsø the projections are we’ll lose 2 of every 3 days skiing in the winter by 2100” @nikolaischirmer talks about how he’s been changing his way to ski and being a pro athlete regarding climate change.
Watch or listen the full conversation at www.athleteclimateacademy.com or at your favorite podcast platform.
@athleteclimateacademy
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That’s why we’re thrilled to unveil our latest project: OUTDOOR FOOTPRINT, an app crafted for the outdoor community to calculate your carbon emissions and provide practical advice on how to lower them.
Give it a try and share your experience with us! 📲
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At the heart of our mission lies the commitment to a sustainable future. 🏔♻
That’s why we’re thrilled to unveil our latest project: OUTDOOR FOOTPRINT, an app crafted for the outdoor community to calculate your carbon emissions and provide practical advice on how to lower them.
Give it a try and share your experience with us! 📲
#OutdoorFootprintApp available now on iOS.
At the heart of our mission lies the commitment to a sustainable future. 🏔♻
That’s why we’re thrilled to unveil our latest project: OUTDOOR FOOTPRINT, an app crafted for the outdoor community to calculate your carbon emissions and provide practical advice on how to lower them.
Give it a try and share your experience with us! 📲
#OutdoorFootprintApp available now on iOS.
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