Summit Watch

... today Anak Krakatau was inert. Not a puff of smoke - just a grey sulphur-flecked hill with a path winding up to the summit. To compound my anticlimax, the summit was out of bounds. Dead as the volcano looked, the seismological instruments implanted in the ...

... of a celebration. We were on the summit for about 15 minutes, taking photos and looking around.  We were hopeing to watch the sunrise from the summit but the cloud cover was too thick to see much.  I had 1 last look around and we made our way, ...

... to sit down and relax again. We reached our campsite, which was relatively close by, unpacked, and went back to Bryce to watch a spectacular sunset. After the sunset, Mr. Troy decided to take us to a nearby ice cream parlor, Ruby's, for a sweet dessert ...

... to scramble using hands and feet, but I was comfortable with my walking stick for the most part. A rocky ledge traversed into the summit crater which was filled with snow. The true summit was just a short scramble to the west. The view above the ...

... in front of me and handed me his hands from behind and pulled me up each step. By the time I reached a few yards from the Summit, I was so teary and emotional that I just hugged him and told him, I couldn't have done this without him. To hear him telling ...

... who was summiting Everest the same day we summited Gokyo Ri.  I copied it in for you to read: SUMMIT PUSH Dear Friends, Family and Fans, This is Mara writing, Jagged Globe base camp manager. Just a quick ...

... see where I was going but I didn't have the energy to look at the views or hurry to get to the top top watch the sun come up over the summit. I think it was about three painful hours after we set off that I reached the top at 6:30. I collapsed to the ...

... saw the spruce pole on the north summit, leading people to believe that the Sourdough expedition actually happened.   After our summit, we continued around different sides of the mountain.  Dave also did some scouting work to help out another ...

... and physically challenging thing I have ever done. Complete T.O.R.T.U.R.E. It was definitely worth it to reach the summit and watch the sun rise. Would I do it again? F##K NO WAY IN HELL! --------------------------------------- SATURDAY ...

... view MP from the sky, and feel like you are almost touching heaven as you look out across the andean peaks.  The summit was crowded, so after a photo, congratulatory hug, and a few thoughts of "gosh it would be really dangerous if it ...

... been up pretty early the past couple of days.  Originally we had planned to be up REALLY early to watch the sunrise at the Haleakala summit, which is apparently quite the experience.  We decided that we'd be OK missing that this time, since ...

...  described in blog posts here and here.  Finally, after a chilly night's camping beside the Furtwangler Glacier on the Summit Plateau, the Roof of Africa was only a few hours away. We were up before dawn, enjoyed hot tea ...

... shops.  I walked around, bought a few more souvenirs and then headed back north to Waikoloa to get ready for the summit trip. After dropping my souvenirs, changing into warmer clothes and getting the few things I needed for the trip, I headed out ...

... in two minds as to whether I regretted not going for the summit of the iconic centre point of this huge parkland area. Summit scaling or just lowland exploring and view admiring, this area is truely beautiful, especially in the sunshine, and despite its ...

... Airport hire centre. Whilst I was driving, Jake and Virva identified one last sight we should see whilst we had four wheels: the summit of Mt Wellington, the bastion of rock at the foot of which Hobart lies. The winding road up was one last injection of ...

... in a westerly direction. But it’s dead easy.  Our final stopping point was only two kilometres from the summit and better weather permitting, would have undoubtedly provided a spectacular view. I caught a very brief glimpse of a very tiny part ...

As mentioned earlier (day 3), we couldn't make it to take the Summit McKinley flight out of Talkeetna. Therefore, we rescheduled our flight with the provider, Talkeetna Aero Services, for today at 11am, going out of Healy. When we woke up in the morning, ...

... bit of the emptiness and silence of the desert. It really aids one in getting to know thyself.   We eventually reached the summit, and I felt like my knees has been assaulted with a baseball bat after climbing more than 700 steps (at ...

... the next day to  Zurich left exactly when it was supposed to leave.  In Zurich, we took a local train to the Uetliberg summit (the train had to climb a significant hill), and then we went on a 7 kilometer walk that ended with us taking a cable ...

... of it, and to join the other boys on their trip to the lookout point for sunset. The girls opted to go home and watch a chickflick and save our energies for the sunrise climb. So, very very early morning start for us, bleurgh. In our zombie states we ...

... that it was in. With quite a few shorter stops to catch our breaths (me as much as Julie) we arrived at Elk Lake Summit just after 6pm, around 5.5 hours after setting off from Stony Creek. We set the tent up, shucked sleeping stuff inside and brought our ...