Expedition conclusion

This was not our most successful expedition but at least everyone came back. It was a dangerous year on Gasherbrum II, several climbers died (on other teams) and no commercial team summitted - indeed the only summits were a small group of Swiss guides very late in the season, who had to take a route variation to avoid dangerous snow.

Our lack of serious attempts on the mountains

With a lot of questioning from the team I feel that a bit of justification is needed, already given verbal of course, and repeated here.

To come...

Kees heading out for the first summit attempt, which ended in Camp 2 (6400m) helping with the rescue of Hirotaka after an avalanche took out some of the Amical team, killing two of them. Photo by Jamie

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