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Weather Conditions Confirm Forecast; Moro and Urubko Train Instead
Nanga Parbat Base Camp 4230m – -12° C Karl Gabl is always right! The weather today began with sun so we started to train a bit. A 4 hours walk down to Kutgully using snow shoes and setting up a route...
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TimeLine S02E02: Ice Lab – Xavier de Le Rue & Lucas Debari in a New Zone
Xavier de Le Rue and TimeLine crew went on a scoping session by plane and spotted a new zone in the heart of the alps at the bottom of the Mt. Blanc. After a day spent on-site to check the conditions,...
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One Year Annivesary of the First Winter Ascent on GII; The Boys Celebrate
Nanga Parbat Base camp. -9°C. One year ago Denis, Cory and Simone reached the summit of Gasherbum II… making history; by achieving the first ever winter accent on the Gasherbrum II. Today is a special...
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Summit Push – Moro & Urubko Anticipate Departure for Tomorrow
February 4th, Nanga Parbat Base Camp, 4230mt above sea level, -10C, snowing heavily. The boys anticipate to reach the summit on Thursday, hence they would need to leave base camp tomorrow Sunday, even...
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Persistent Snow – Plans to Depart For the Summit Push Today Goes On Hold
Nanga Parbat Base Camp 4230m, -14C, persistent snow. Yesterday morning and especially yesterday evening the two calls to Karl Gabl left little doubts that the weather would get worse. We were hoping to...
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Moro & Urubko kick off the Summit Push Today But Stop Due to Avalanche Risks
This epic journey started over one month ago. For the last 11 days the boys have waited at base camp for a favourable weather window to kick off the summit push. The last few days have seen a lot of...
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Anxiety Increases at Basecamp Over Prolonged Bad Weather Conditions
Nanga Parbat Base Camp, -16°C, still snowing The weather is still very bad, the boys are still at basecamp and the prolonged bad weather condition is creating a lot of anxiety to make a move or not...
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Moro & Urubko Retrace Tracks as Acclimatization Tracks Are Now Covered by...
Nanga Parbat Base Camp, 4230mt above sea level, -17°C The persistent snow conditions have left the boys faced with a potential complete restart of the whole process as all the tracks they have made in...
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Day 37 at Basecamp – Weather Evaluations Continue
Nanga Parbat Base Camp, 4230mt above sea level, sun and sky, -1°C in the sun. Today is perfect for spontaneous avalanches, this morning a big one came down already from Nanga Parbat. We spoke via radio...
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Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition – Video Dispatch 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHL71YRE17w In this video dispatch, The North Face Alpinists; Simone Moro and Denis Urubko face bad weather conditions that stalls the planned summit push. The conditions...
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Message to Our Fans and Followers
Nanga parrbat Base Camp, -2C, cloudy, ready to snow. Simone and Denis have been at base camp for over one month in harsh weather conditions, with the bid of getting the right weather window to attempt...
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The Expedition is Stopped – The Team is Coming Back Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvItwxNWS-8 Having received news of further heavy snow in the coming week from Innsbruck-based meteorologist Karl Gabl, alpinists Simone Moro (ITA) and Denis Urubko (KAZ)...
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Iker Pou make the first Ascent of Nit de Bruixes” in Margalef, Spain
Iker Pou recently did the first ascent of the route “Nit de Bruixes” in Margalef, Spain. Nit de Bruixes is a 25 meter line bolted by Jordi Pou back in 2006 and due to its extreme difficulty was not...
View ArticleThe North Face Goose Down Update
2/20/12 As you may have seen, a news story was recently published in the UK regarding The North Face and the goose down used in some of our products. The story raised questions about The North Face...
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The North Face Transgrancanaria 2012 – Attracts 1800 Mountain Lovers
The North Face Transgrancanaria 2012 has become a must for all trail running lovers. This Friday 2nd March at midnight one of the most famous ultra trail races in Spain will begin. Each year, more and...
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Starting Line Images – Transgrancanaria 2012 has kicked off at 00:00GMT
The North Face Transgrancanaria 2012 has just kicked off from the Playa del Inglés Beach, with over 350 ultra runners starting the 123km race distance. The North Face athletes, Sebastien Chaigneau,...
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The North Face Transgrancanaria 2012: Results after 31 KM into the night
After the first stop station and after running 31km into the night, The North Face Athletes are all in the leading pack. Ultra runners Sebastien Chaigneau and Zigor Iturrieta who finished 2nd and 1st...
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Cruz Grande -New Race Statistics After 46KM
As the runners pass by Cruz Grande, at 46Km, The North Face Athletes are still mainintaining their leadership in the leader group, with Sebastien Chignaeau now in front as 1st position and Zigor...
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After 54km Lizzy and Zigor Stop The 2012 Transgrancanaria Ultra Race
The North Face athletes, Zigor Iturrieta and Lizzy Hawker; both winners of the last edition of the Transgrancanaria in the Men’s and Women’s categories respectively have unfortunately discontinued...
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Sebastien Chaigneau Wins The Transgrancanaria 2012. Sets a New Record
The North Face Athlete, Sebastien Chaigneau (FR) has won the 2012 edition of the 123km Transgrancanaria and setting a new record of 12:54:18. Cheered by the audience, Sebastien crossed the finish line...
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