Altitude Junkies

25/12/2024

Happy Holidays!
No matter what you are celebrating, we will be having one (or seven) for you!
The Junkies

16/12/2024

We are going April 2025. Email us for details.

28/11/2024

08/11/2024

🎉🏔️ CONGRATULATIONS to the incredible team on their successful summit of Mt. Cholatse! 🏔️🎉

What an achievement! This marks our 8th consecutive year of achieving a 100% success rate on Mt. Cholatse. It’s truly inspiring to witness the dedication, resilience, and teamwork that brought everyone to the top. Huge kudos to the climbers and Altitude Junkies guides for their leadership and unwavering support throughout this challenging expedition. 🙌

Special shoutout to the amazing team:
Phill Cramton
Scott Bigelow
Regan Jason Preston
Daniel Fonfara
Martin Scholsem
Pasang Nima Sherpa
Ang Gelu Sherpa
And Sonam Chhiring Sherpa for their strength and determination—making it to the summit at 8:20 am this morning. 👏

What a way to kick off the season! Now, the journey continues with the next adventure to Mt. Kanchanjunga—2025(Spring) bookings are officially open! 🌍🔥

Stay tuned for more incredible updates, and don’t forget to follow for all the latest from the mountains.

02/11/2024

🚀 Cholatse Update 🚀

The Altitude Junkies team has safely reached Cholatse Base Camp and is enjoying the warm vibes! 🌄 The camp is peaceful, with only a few teams preparing for their summit bids. The ropes are fixed, and in just a couple of days, we’ll be heading to Camp 1 for rotation before our summit push once acclimatized.

Stay tuned for more updates! 🙌

31/10/2024

**Altitude Junkies Cholatse Update:**

It’s beer o’clock for the altitude junkies after a pleasant short hike to Machermo! They will be spending the night at Machermo Lodge and will continue their trek to Cholatse Base Camp tomorrow. So far, everything is going smoothly, and the team is thoroughly enjoying their time together, having shared several trips with the junkies before.
Additionally, we are excited to announce that we are now open for the Kanchenjunga expedition scheduled for next spring, 2025!

01/08/2024

This is Cholatse, one of our favorite mountains in the world.
Although only 6440 meters, she makes up for the lack of height with technical challenges, beauty and peace. (not crowded!)
This will be our seventh year climbing her.
Come join us this fall..........
https://www.altitudejunkies.com/cholatse.html

11/07/2024

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23/06/2024

We are in Peru. Watching the in our down time.
next in Nepal.

16/05/2024

This is where all our emails from the past month have been going.

If you sent an email to [email protected] during this time, you might have thought we were drinking (we were) but there was a problem with our server..... (we serve ourselves, but not in this aspect)....
Please resend your emails to us. We miss you

17/04/2024

We still have space on our Peru trips...
June 15-28 and June 1 -14.
https://www.altitudejunkies.com/cordillerablanca.html

Email us for details and any questions. [email protected]

Altitude Junkies offer a cost effective alpine climb of three of Peru's most suitable Cordillera Blanca introductory peaks in the amazing Ishinca Valley. Our expedition is limited to six climbers total including leaders with a 1:2 guide to climber ratio.

13/04/2024

We have had successful summits. More news to come soon.......

08/04/2024

Phil on the head wall up to C2 on a recent rotation. The team is waiting for a good weather window for a summit push.

02/04/2024

Photo from the puja ceremony which took place March 24, with a special blessing for Sammy.
The team is now on a second rotation and monitoring the weather.

28/03/2024

As you can see from the InReach message, the team are enjoying some well deserved beverages after having spent 2 nights at Camp 1 and tagged Camp 2. Once rested, the next set of plans will be made.

24/03/2024

Samuli Mansikka
July 26, 1978 - March 24, 2015
Forever etched into our hearts.

Forever painted mural in Espoo, Finland by the artist Jouni "Psyke" Väänänen .

22/03/2024

From the team:
Looks like puja will be on the 24...Sammy's day 🙏
Rope fixers have been to C1.Running out of Khukuri

(for those who don't know, Khukuri is a Nepalese rum, which AJ's Phil believes is very good for "acclimatization and the throat")


with Khukuri

20/03/2024

The team finally made it to basecamp yesterday, after spending 3 nights in the village of Dana.
They celebrated someone's birthday the first night and watched the flies the second and third nights. Needless to say, they are happy to be in basecamp and ready to start the party.