During my brief visit to Turtigrø high camp I had the opportunity to see a few talks, one such talk was by this Norwegian climbing team that climbed in the Himalayas, on a mountain called the Great Trango... How exciting... The talk was, well quite impressive, but mainly about logistics and some in jokes. The whole thing was marred by a continuous stream of people walking into the room, sitting, realising something and then leaving. At the end of the talk I was left impressed by the commitment of these guys as it took ages to get up, something like 30 days! how much was spent on the wall... well I just don`t, but long. Another thing that got me was, they didn`t have many photo`s of climbing, just aid climbing. At the end some guy in the audience piped up, "So why didnt you free climb it?" This kind of left the person giving the talk a bit stumped and he just shrugged his shoulders, and made some excuses, like it was cold, and at altitude etc. The man piped up again, it wasnt that cold during the day and other people climb this sort of thing free....
This sort of thing would never happen in the UK... or may be not...
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