June 6, 2016 6:10 pm
Pemba Gyalje Sherpa
Ruben and SARON have formed a great team of specialists the last few days for the search for Christiaan. One of the climb specialists is Pemba Gyalje Sherpa.
Pemba Gyalie Sherpa was National Geographic Adventurer of the Year because of his effort to save lives on K2. He climbed the Mount Everest 7 times and knows the Dhaulagiri area very well.
Ruben: “I’m not such a Catholic, but this man on the right is like a saint. I almost don’t dare to look at him.”
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The search will continue (Update by Ruben)
Ruben: “The manager of saron and Pemba sherpa traveled to Pokhara today. We looked through all the info, talked with Paul and made plans. Our plan is to drop Pemba with Paul at the Italian camp and then fly to do a search by air. The dogteam is continuing and is a bit below Italian camp. They work towards Bogar. We will leave at 06:00 and hope for good weather.”
June 4, 2016 10:20 am
The weather was good this morning. The helicopter took an half hour visual spot on difficult areas above the basecamp en Italian camp. the SARON team was dropped at the agreed location, Italian camp and Paul it there. They will work their way up. The dogteam is dropped at basecamp. They will work to Italian camp. Ruben and Paul are ok.
May 30, 2016 3:15 am
On Monday May 30th at 07:00 am local time (03:15 uur CEST) the search for Christiaan has started.
Based on the available information, it’s logical to look at the trekking of Basecamp (BC) to Beni (see map). De first part of descending 1000 height meters is 3 hours on a glacier. Depending on fresh snow, this can be risky.
If there is no snow a lot less. Because there seems to have been Facebook contact on May 17 (!) and Christiaan left from base camp the 15/16th, it would be likely that he has past the glacier and reached/passed Italian camp. This is not more than a day from BC (1000 hm). However Snowy Horizon (expedition agency) says there is no message that he’s been here.
