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Education of Pakistani High porters in installation of fixed ropes<\/strong><\/p>\n The goal of the project is the installation of fixed ropes at Gondogoro La (Gondogoro Pass) at\u00a05’600 m\u00fcM. This pass is located\u00a0on the Baltoro-Trek route, where also\u00a0expeditions to K2, Gasherbrum and various other peaks will cross.\u00a0A steep rock slope at\u00a0Gondogoro pass\u00a0(5650 m) of several hundred meters was crossed with considerable risks. With the installation of fixed ropes and the associated education of the local high porters, this passage will become a lot saver.<\/p>\n The education of nine high porters in the\u00a0Hushe-Valley\u00a0\/ Baltistan was a full success. These\u00a0high porters are used to climb the peaks above 8’000 m in Karakorum with heavy loads. Thus they have little knowledge\u00a0of the savety tecniques in mountaineering. For one week, we trained a\u00a0team of nine high porters in rope handling, knots, rapelling and crevasse rescue. As part of the training,\u00a0the highporters\u00a0installed a first fixed rope section\u00a0on an exposed rock passage of the trekking route to Gondogoro La.<\/p>\n In preparation we organized all the material\u00a0(~400kg) for the installation of fixed ropes\u00a0in Switzerland and sent it to Pakistan per Cargo. There were Hilti Accu-Drilling machines, fuel generators,\u00a01’200m static ropes, bolts and plates, snow anchors and a lot of other equipment. For the most part, the material was donated for free and it will remain in Hushe Valley for further fixed installations.<\/p>\n With this first project in the region of the “little tibet”, as Baltistan is also known for, we have set a hopefully sustainable base which certainly will create\u00a0succeeding projects for our Swiss Sherpa Foundation.<\/p>\n A great success with many stunning impressions and experiences with these amazing people and a\u00a0fascinating scenery.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_gallery admin_label=”Galerie” gallery_ids=”2292,2293,2294,2295,2296,2297,2298,2299,2300,2301,2302,2303,2304,2305,2306,2307″ fullwidth=”on” show_title_and_caption=”on” show_pagination=”on” background_layout=”light” auto=”off” hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.9)” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] [\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Education of high porters, Hushe Valley (Pakistan) Education of Pakistani High porters in installation of fixed ropes The goal of the project is the installation of fixed ropes at Gondogoro La (Gondogoro Pass) at\u00a05’600 m\u00fcM. This pass is located\u00a0on the Baltoro-Trek route, where also\u00a0expeditions to K2, Gasherbrum and various other peaks will cross.\u00a0A steep rock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"project_category":[14,17],"project_tag":[38,37,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/2290\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swiss-sherpa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}