There's a lot of good fortune with anything. Having a great spell of weather in the Karakorum's would be one and having an early winter with lots of miserable weather here would be a second - than you have to grab the fortune when it presents itself. With another raging South Wester about the tops and a small snow storm going on it was a day to race up and make the most of it. Rain, sleet , snow ,ice and wind - 5 seasons of weather in 6 good hours scurrying around behind Winter peak and Mt Arthur. Not much to see in photos - mainly white - highlight of day was sliding blocks of snow that had broken of the wind formed cornice on the Arthur ridge and tumbled down the mountain off the side off a cliff and watch them cascade a bit further - not for long though to cold and windy to hang around.
Headed out and did the Winter peak Arthur summit route in an early season snow storm on Tuesday - good fun with a cold south wind , memory card failed so no pictures but here's the ranges on Wednesday. By Saturday most of snow had already gone but with my mate Carl headed to the summit of Arthur late Sat night and found a little hollow to pitch the Kathmandu XT NothStar Alpine tent which worked great on first outing. Following day we spent several hours wandering the range before heading home for Chinese dumpling prepared by Linna for dinner.
"Palmerston North mountaineer and cyclist Nathan Dahlberg to try for mountain ride record"
Manawatu Standard done an article on the broad peak mission, check it out
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/inspire-me/67664010/palmerston-north-mountaineer-and-cyclist-nathan-dahlberg-to-try-for-mountain-ride-record.html
http://danilnews.com/news/palmerston-north-mountaineer-and-cyclist-nathan-dahlberg-to-try-for-mountain-ride-record
http://www.scoopnest.com/user/NZStuff/585984873808072705
Nathan Dahlberg, Broad Peak, World Record, Mountaineer, Cyclist, Outdoors, Adventure, Mountians, Climbing, Hiking, Biking, Tour De France, Absolute Fitness, Kathmandu, broadpeak, Exploring, 8000m