We received great feedback from Nicola Rowbotham in her article about climbing Kilimanjaro with Sean in the latest Shape magazine – thanks Nicky.

Shortly after Sean returned from Kili, we drove to Cradock in the Eastern Cape to do the Fish River canoe marathon. It’s one of the best canoeing races on the calendar – and […]

 NB. update 13 May 2010…for any K2 or Karakoram climbers in the 2010 season I have three new cylinders of Poisk oxygen in Skardu that are for sale email Sean on venture@hot.co.za 

We’ve been in Base Camp for 6 continuous days and most likely for another 3 days.  The weather is super unstable with lots of snow…I’ve […]

It’s been a fantastic 2 days from Skardu to Ghula.  We left Skardu in jeeps and took the road to Askole. The jeep track must be the dodgiest road on earth – there are constant land slides as the road is cut out of the faces of super loose and steep slopes that follow a […]

Written/recorded by Sean: Friday 12th June at 7.30 pm from Skardu, Pakistan

This is basically my first recording live from the field. It’s been a testing 30 hours on a bus from Islamabad to Skardu.

This will be the last blog before Sean leaves for K2 tomorrow. From here on he’ll be keeping us updated from the field.

Sean will be away from home for 10 weeks on this expedition which is more or less how long it takes to climb an 8611m peak like K2. It takes this much time because of … more