Ski Mountaineering Trip Kicks Off in South Georgia
WEDNESDAY, 28 NOVEMBER 2007
A French mountaineering team joined a French expatriate to engage in a sea-supported ski mountaineering expedition to an island in South Georgia. The team is composed of Philippe Batoux, Manu Cauchy (a.k.a. Doc Vertical) and Lionel Daudet. The French expatriate Isabelle Autissier is a famous sailor. The expedition will continue until early January.
As early as now, the team has completed the first ascent of Sheridan Peak, the sixth ascent of Mt. Paget which is the island’s tallest peak, and the third ascent of Surprise Peak.
The team arrived in Grytviken, and then skied up the Nordensjkord Glacier toward the Allardyce Range and Mt. Paget. Two days after, they moved to the base of Mt. Sheridan and climbed a new route named L'arete des 70 ans.
South Georgia is the largest group of islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean known as the South Georgia group.
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