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MAKALU CONQUERED<\/b><\/p>\n

MIKE HORN AND FRED ROUX REACH THE SUMMIT OF MAKALU (8’463m)<\/b>WITHOUT THE USE OF ADDITIONAL OXYGEN OR HIGH ALTITUDE PORTERS<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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<\/b>17.05.2014\u00a0– Nepal.\u00a0<\/b>On\u00a0the 17th of May 2014,\u00a0South African Explorer Mike Horn and Swiss mountain guide\/alpinist\u00a0Fred Roux reach\u00a0the summit of Makalu\u00a0without the use of additional oxygen or high altitude porters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Horn and Fred Roux\u00a0left Makalu Advanced Base Camp\u00a0at 5’700m at\u00a0midday on the\u00a016th of May and climbed that afternoon\u00a0to\u00a0their first camp at\u00a06’800m. The following day they climbed up to\u00a07’500m, stopping\u00a0for some\u00a0hours rest before doing the summit push to 8’463m in the early hours of the 17th of May.<\/p>\n

The two men\u00a0took on their own rhythm during the ascent,\u00a0eventually\u00a0separating\u00a0and continuing\u00a0on their own.\u00a0Fred Roux reached the summit first at 10:30 local Nepalese time,\u00a0some hours before Mike, who arrived at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Yet another full day was ahead of them as they started the descent and\u00a0eventually the\u00a0exhausted\u00a0but happy team greeted each other once again in Makalu’s advanced base camp.<\/p>\n

Mike Horn and Fred Roux are the first men to successfully climb a Himalayan summit over 8’000m\u00a0in the Nepal 2014 climbing season and are just a small handful of men who\u00a0have summited this mountain without the use of additional oxygen.<\/p>\n

“The climb was particularly grueling for both of us. We were both very fit and well acclimatised after 3 weeks of waiting for a good weather window, but the mountain is extremely exposed and challenged us\u00a0with its\u00a0strong winds and very cold temperatures. We are thrilled to have both reached the summit. It’s a great achievement of\u00a0physical and mental endurance\u00a0and we are thrilled to be rewarded\u00a0with this magnificent victory” says Mike.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The Makalu Expedition proceeds the Expedition Pole2Pole 360\u00b0 which will kick off in September 2014. Mike Horn embarks on another massive expedition of one year duration, the circumvolution of the world on the longitude, traversing the South Pole, North Pole and Greenland on foot and kayak and joining the continents with his sailboat, Pangaea.<\/p>\n

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