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Monday, August 10, 2009

Nico Favresse——Baffin Island Expedition UPDATE #4

Black Diamond athlete Nico Favresse is on an expedition to Baffin Island with the objective to establish new free routes in the Weasel Valley. He and partners Sean Villanueva, Olivier Favresse and Stephane Hansens will spend two months in this very remote part of the globe and hope to discover amazing first ascent possibilities.

Nico plans on sending us updates via their satelite phone as the adventure and climbing develops. We will post his messages here so that everyone can follow along, so be sure to keep checking back for updates from the team!

We just received Update #4 from Alastair Lee who is currently in Baffin Island for the “Asgard Project Expedition”:
mount asgard

Everything is okay. We have no more credit on our sat phone. We spent 11 days on the South Tower of Asgard. Trying to free the Bavarian route. It almost went entirely free. It was amazing! Excellent climbing! Crazy summit. 2 weeks left. We are now going to try a push on the North Tower.

Thanks and hello to all.

Nico F.

Thanks a lot to Alastair Lee who sent us the news!

Note: we should receive more news from the team since the “Asgard Project Expedition” has an internet connection at their basecamp...


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