The Hub and new plans for K2
Last week, I gave a lecture in the offices of The Hub. The subject of this lecture was “High Altitude Project Management”. During the lecture, I talked about a number of principles that apply both to project management and mountaineering. We also collected 150 euro for Doctors Without Frontiers that evening.
A few weeks ago Victor Saunders was in Belgium. I’ve been climbing with Victor since 2001 and together we have climbed Mont Blanc, Vinson, Cho Oyu, Everest, Carstensz Pyramid and Elbrus. During that weekend, we went rockblimbing in the Ardennes, but we also talked at length bout K2. Amongst others, we talked about the route and the team. The result of all these discussions was that we have confirmed our intent to set up a new K2 expedition in 2011. We would like to approach the 2011 expedition differently than the one in 2009, but I will talk more about that later.