If you're following Leo Houlding's
Asgard
Project - he and his team are aiming to
climb and then base jump a remote and difficult wall on Baffin Island -
then you might like to know that the team has set off for the wall and
the expedition is finally underway.
According to the team's
Twitter
Page, they set off early on the morning of
Thursday July 30 on the three to four day hike in to the bottom of Mt
Asgard, their objective. Apparently snow melt turns the approaches to
the mountain into soft tundra underfoot, limiting the amount each
climber can carry to just 25kg or so.
Unfortunately an expedition of this scale needs rather more than that,
given that the team could spend up to two weeks on the wall and are
also carrying filming equipment. To get round the problem, Houlding
arranged for five haul bags and 11 massive barrels of kit and food to
be shipped in by snowmobile before the thaw, so, polar bears with can-openers permitting, a full dump of supplies should be waiting for them at
the base of the wall.
We'll bring you more news when we can, but you can find the web site at
www.theasgardproject.com
