An attempt on Lobuje East, 1991 |
 Saturday, 12 October 1991 – Rest day in Namche Bazar: While we were at the Sagarmatha National Park headquarters, a Nepalese military helicopter landed in order to refuel. As I noted in my diary, “an injured climber hobbled out. … he was one of four members of a Spanish expedition to get to the top of Everest on 6 October, but had frostbite in two of his toes.” I took this photograph of him and later learned that his name was Pepe Garces. Ten years later, almost to the day, Pepe Garces was killed while tackling Dhaulagiri, another of Nepal’s eight-thousand metre peaks. |