Tien Shan Peaks Expedition News July 2008.

Tien Shan Peaks Expedition News 15 July 2008.

The Team Leader : Ben Bradford

Henry Irvine

Richard Lewis

Jonathan Stone

Yvonne Beckwith

Paul Henshaw

Carys Henshaw

Jonathan Boylan

Emma Finney

Raymond McCourt

“100% summit success – All 9 members of the expedition have successfully reached the 6200m summit of Peak Chapayev. They are currently descending the fixed lines towards Base Camp.”

11th August – All the team are now back safe in the UK after a very successful trip.

6th August – Everyone is now safe down at BC and prepraing for their helicopter flight back to Maidadyr.

5th August – 100% summit success – All 9 members of the expedition have successfully reached the 6200m summit of Peak Chapayev. They are currently descending the fixed lines towards Base Camp.

3rd August – The team are now at camp 2 ready to make their bid for the summit tomorrow. Ben said that all the team have been going strong and looking forward to the summit attempt.

26th July – The whole team have just returned to Base Camp after a couple of days out exploring the Inylchek Glacier gaining some much needed acclimatisation. Everyone is going well and enjoying the good weather. After a rest day tomorrow they plan to make a first carry to Camp 1 on Peak Chapayev.

23rd July – Ben and the team have dropped off at Base Camp by the helicopter. They did have some delay en-route to the Helipad at a border checkpoint, but apart from that inconvenience the group are fine and looking forward to starting their climbing.

19th July – Unfortunately at the last minute Jon Boylan was not able to join the team departing UK due to a severe bout of food poisoning.

15th July – The group will depart the UK on the 19th July