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Managed to go to Portugal, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Malta all in 5 weeks. Climbed Gran Paradiso from the valley and made it to the summit in 3:50. Overall was an easy climb but made tough from the valley to summit push. The mountain is normally climbed over 2-3 days with ppl staying in the huts. We blasted by all the hut dwellers and got a good workout as a result. As always going down was a bummer for me!
Summit of Mount Everest on May 13th at 6:10am. The summit push started off with decent weather, but within a couple of hours of the summit wind really picked up. To the point my down suit formed an ice sheet over the top of it leading to my Nalgene bottles + Spring gels to freeze (was not fun having to carry frozen blocks of water and gels I couldn’t access or consume). Upon reaching the summit I wasn’t able to even get my phone out to take pictures- luckily my Sherpa guide, Nima Nuru, was able to get some on his Android. My summit conditions was such a dichotomy as the view was as clear as could be, but the wind and gusts of ice/blown snow were so strong I could hardly enjoy it, and instead was just thinking on how I now needed to get down in these conditions. It didn’t help that a dead body right before the summit messed with me. By the time I was leaving the summit even the inside of my goggles froze over making it increasingly difficult to see at all. Getting back to Camp 4 is a blur as I was just eager to get out of the weather and back to relative safety. To make things more dramatic upon arriving to Camp 4 I was expecting to get in a tent and hydrate + recover for a bit post summit success. Instead, camp 4 appeared significantly smaller and MingmaG was there waiting for me. After congratulating me and offering me a bowl of coffee while getting pelted by the wind he informed me that my tent and several others had been blown down, and the remaining tents were being taken down due to the conditions. That the only option was moving to camp 2 and we had to leave immediately. Completely smoked from my climb I set off to camp 2 eventually getting there for an over 24 hr summit day. Ultimately successfully completing my rapid ascent of Everest in 25 days. Overall it’s Mount Everest and I guess intensity or a significantly impactful experience is to be expected (and I certainly had mine). As I went with a thumbs up over a flag or banner I’ll accept being the 2nd Puerto Rican
to have made it to the top of Everest. Thanks to MingmaG and the
@imaginenepal team for putting on a great expedition and helping me get safely down from Camp 4 while a shell of myself. #Everest#everest2024 Bitcoin just below $70k
Tonight will be my 4th night here! So far I went up to Pumori high camp which is around 18500 ft. Hiked there with a sherpa named Nima and Raj (55 yr old indian man working on his last of the 7 summits). Apart from that I have been going for brief hikes to the EBC entrance sign and slightly further.
Was pretty anxious upon arrival to EBC as I couldn’t believe how hard it was to breathe. Even walking 10 feet to the toilet would take my breath away. But each day it has gotten a better and better. I started diamox at 125 x2 which also seemed to help.
So far so good. $BTC @ $66k
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I have definitely been in a slump following my dad’s sickness and ultimate passing. I know he would want me to keep living life, and doing hard things has always been a solution to get out of my head and to be the moment. Successful climbing trip to Switzerland and I’m already feeling significantly better. Though, I know out of the mountains in the alps my dad was only really interested/impressed with climbing the Eiger. So I will be back to climb that! Managed to climb the Matterhorn in under 3:05, Breithorn x2 (once via the half traverse route, and once solo via the normal route), and Castor.
Bitcoin:$26000
Bitcoin at $26,874.64 and we planning some new climbs
Just got back from Venice and off to AT for 2 weeks at the end of the week. BTC took a big dip and recovered some as it sits at $10550.
Just got back from my cousins wedding in San Juan. After I went and checked out Anguilla and St.Maarten. Fine trip 1 k but St.Maarten was super destroyed. Over all not the best place to just travel around aimlessly. Bitcoin price at $7600
Just got back from the Summit of Aconcagua. Great experience. On the trip I climbed Cotopaxi, Corazon, Bonete, Illiniza Sur, and Aconcagua. Cryptodream living.
Did the nyc60k again in 5:40 marathon was in 3:47 and change . Pretty cool btc hit an ath the next day 