Four Norwegians from “World Wide Vikings - EVEREST 2006 group” arrived in Lukla for 12 days of acclimatizing trek in the Khumbu Valley.
7 summits.com Thursday, March 16. 2006
There are 4 Norwegians in our 7summits.com/7summits-club.com expedition team, a small subteam as they are all friends. I have asked them to introduce themselves:
"Here is a short article about us "crazy" Norwegians: We are four Norwegian joining The 7 Summits Everest expedition this year. We`re living in 4 different places in Norway. Despite that we are good friends and have climbed several mountains together, both in Norway and in foreign countries. We are experienced climbers and mountaineers, and we`re hoping we are well prepared to climb Mount Everest. Petter had to give up his attempt climbing Everest last year, but he doesn`t give up so easily. For the rest of us this will be our first meeting with the highest mountain in the world.
Before joining the other participants in Kathmandu, we will go through 12 days of acclimatizing in the beautiful Khumbu Valley. This is why we are leaving Norway as early as 25th of March. Our main goal is to put three men on top of the world, without putting our own or other`s life and health in danger. But we define a successful expedition as an expedition where at least one of us reaches the summit, at the same time as everyone avoids injuries.
Here`s some details about each of us (from our website):
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Petter Kragset
Originating from Hakallestranda, Sunnmøre on the west coast of Norway. He grew up in the seashore along with crab and fish. Short thereafter his main interest became track and field covering plenty of miles on mountain and dirt roads. Turning 17 years old, he moved to Oslo and held a variety of jobs including postman, banker, paperboy and eventually his own real estate company. His stamp collection was soon replaced with a collection of the highest mountains of all countries of the world. Europe is already complete.
He also has six of the seven summits, Carstensz Pyramid (4884 m), Mount Vinson (4898 m), Elbrus (5642 m), Kilimanjaro ( 5895 m), McKinley (6194 m), and Aconcagua (6962 m). “Everest is still missing”, concludes Petter.
Torbjørn Orkelbog:
15 years old Torbjørn and his friend was missing in the deep forests of Nordmarka, north of Oslo. They spent the night outdoor without a tent and with no food. Luckily there was a happy ending to the story, and ever since the craftsman from Oppdal has used most of his spare time out in the nature (without trigging any rescue operations). The last 10 years his territory has expanded to the whole world. Here is some of the mountains he has summited: The highest peak in every country in Europe, Carstensz Pyramid (4.884m), Mt Vinson (4.898m), Kilimanjaro (5.895m), McKinley (6.194m) and Aconcagua (6.962m). He has also cross-skied and cyckled from the North to the South point of Norway, a total distance of 2500 km!
Frode Høgset:
From Hakallestranda, in the countryside on the west coast of Norway. He lived there until he was 18. During the next 18 years he has lived in 4 of the biggest cities in Norway: Trondheim, Tromsø, Oslo and now Bergen. Frode is graduated engineer in computer science and the expedition`s webmaster. He has spent thousands of hours in in front of a monitor or a laptop. He therefore uses the nature and the mountain to get away from computers and city noise.
In 1999 he got interested in higher mountains and thinner air, during a trip to Kilimanjaro (5.895m). After that Aconcagua (6.962m), Elbrus (5.642m), McKinley (6.194m) and Khan Tengri (7.010m) are the highest mountain he has visited. "Some think I`m crazy. I think I`m crazy if I don`t."
Johnny Brevik:
Johnny is a real mountaineer from the western part of Norway. He has lived in different places all over Norway, but is now living in the capital, Oslo. He is comfortable above as well as below the water level, on snow-covered fields as well as on bicycle paths. He is both engineer, economist and jurist. He is graduated master of Management from BI in Oslo. He is now the director of Jernbaneverket Bane Energi (a part of the Norwegian National Rail Administration).
Besides the Norwegian mountains, he has visited mountains in Kashmir, Patagonia, Peru and the Alps. His highest mountain so far is Ojos del Salado in Chile, 6903 GPS-meters a.s.l. ”I like challenges - Everest is definitely a challenge!”
