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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 27, 2012 - 09:16pm PT
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Adam Lawrance, Jared Vagy and I are headed up valley in the morning. Casa de Giua is indeed putting together a team to go up as well. We talked to their logistical coordinator this evening to confer and trade info. Ted's team got to high camp today. No sat phone contact yet with them. Thanks for all the sat image work. It may prove invaluable. Misha, I'm at Zarela's. Leave your contact info with her if I'm not back yet. Good news is we are most likely getting an fixed wing recon flight tomorrow. These guys are tough, Lets not let them down Keep your hopes up and send good thoughts to all involved; Gil,Ben family, Friends and those on the hill. Thanks.
TY
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Andre
Trad climber
CA
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Jul 27, 2012 - 09:24pm PT
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Possible camp spot. With some sharpening it looks like a yellow tent and 3 dark objects around it (packs?). There was nothing in this spot on July 2nd.This spot is located directly underneath the attempted route and matches with Asa's descriptions.
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Nate Ricklin
climber
San Diego
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Jul 27, 2012 - 09:32pm PT
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Andre good catch dude, here's a couple of screenshots both from google earth showing both:
the coordinates are -9.375059 -77.381387
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jonathanb
climber
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Jul 27, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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I'm an absolute amateur at scouring satellite photos ... would resolution be high enough to spot the climbers' paths? They're seems to be a trail of some sort in this photo (I moved the markers slightly to the left for clarity).
http://tomnod.com/gi/peru/?vid=2123
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:15pm PT
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Thanks to you guys doing the work on the photos!!!
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Chugach Man
climber
Anchorage / Los Angeles
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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With respect to the footprints that they think were theirs beginning the decent, do we think there's any possibility they could have attempted to backtrack and go down the north side, or a different decent route if the objective hazards down the SW ridge were too gnarly?
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:28pm PT
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Kristen, Look at the scale bar on the screen and compare that to the picture.....unless they are giants at 200m tall, I don't think that's what you think it is. :)
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Nate Ricklin
climber
San Diego
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:31pm PT
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I found a spot on the descent ridge where it looks like there are no tracks July 2, but tracks July 26.
This is at 5600m on the descent ridge.
Does it look this way to anybody else? Maybe it's the sun angle but it looks like there's nothing there July 2.
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Chugach Man
climber
Anchorage / Los Angeles
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:34pm PT
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Been looking at that as well Nate - it kind of looks more like tumbling debris/snowballs, but that stuff is pretty easy to mix up with footprints. Definitely worth checking out in my opinion if we can get a team up there.
Been trying to visualize where they would attempt to continue down from there as well...
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Splitterday
climber
originally Morganton, NC
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:45pm PT
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Come on homeys! I know you're digging deep, just keep hanging on, the SAR team is there! I saw you two in my dream two nights ago -- remember, start strong finish strong!
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Chugach Man
climber
Anchorage / Los Angeles
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:49pm PT
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Beth S
Gym climber
Charlottesville, VA
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:52pm PT
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I have never looked at satellite photos before, but I'm giving it a go. Do these dots look like people? There's no tracks coming and going from them so I'm not sure...
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Nate Ricklin
climber
San Diego
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Jul 27, 2012 - 10:59pm PT
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Beth S: Yes that's consistent with what a person would look like.
Chugach Man: I thought so too but what about the ridge in the foreground visible in the photograph?
edit: on second thought, you're probably right. Maybe the ridge is just not represented very well in google earth's elevation model
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Ryan Day Thompson
Trad climber
Denver
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Jul 27, 2012 - 11:00pm PT
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I actually see what looks like a pretty convincing looking foot path below what Valeraxy points out. Anyone else see that?
Edit: That actually looks a bit like a WTF trail too. "Can we get down over here? Nope..."
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Ryan Day Thompson
Trad climber
Denver
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Jul 27, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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Seems pretty discontinuous to me and looks like there are break points and diversions for routefinding maybe?
Seems a whole lot like a consistent footpath to me.
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Ryan Day Thompson
Trad climber
Denver
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Jul 27, 2012 - 11:20pm PT
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Here's that whole thing stitched together.
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SuperTopo on the Web
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Let us know!