KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 18
The only expedition on Mt Dhaulagiri this season has been making slow progress as the alpinists set up camp II, according to expedition organizers.
Pemba Jangbu Sherpa, Managing Director at I AM Trekking & Expedition, said that a 14-member team of alpinists from Russia and Belarus set up camp II and plans to head towards the higher camp.
"The team led by Alexander Dusheyko from Russia has been struggling hard to climb Dhaulagiri in an alpine style," Sherpa said.
The other members of the team include Vladimir Peresedov, Valerii Shamalo, Oleg Timkin, Maksin Makarov, Dmitrii Timkin, Sergei Votrotyntsev, Dmitrii Kliukin, Oleg Kruglov, Vladimir Chistikov, Dmitrii Shpilevoi, Mikhail Nosenko and Denis Aleksenko from Russia as well as Artsiom Tsentsevitski from Belarus.
Under the Russian Dhaulagiri Expedition' team, the climbers will attempt to scale the 8,167-metre mountain without guide support, according to Sherpa. The Department of Tourism confirmed that the Dusheyko-led expedition is the only team which obtained climbing permits for Dhaulagiri in the autumn season.
