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Cold and wet and windy was our campsite at the foot of Carstensz Pyramid, the highest mountain of Australasia/Oceania. Though just a few kilometers lower the jungle is hot, here the cold and barren rocks make for an unwelcome atmosphere…

Shot in 1999 on regular Kodak film with Canon 500n, scanned later

Category: 7 summits • Landscapes • Mountains • Oceania • People

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4 Responses to “Basecamp of Carstensz Pyramid, Papua”

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    Jeff Ambrose:

    Stellar, a view I’ll likely never see. What is this I have read about this place? Something about a mine and having to have permission to cross their land to get here?

    (HK) Hi Jeff, thanks for your comments. Yes, just a few kilometers away is the Freeport mine, one of the biggest ecological (and sociological) disasters in the world. They have made a private road that goes close to the mountain, but it is not allowed to use it.

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    September 16th, 2007 at 09:32
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    Ian:

    Great atmosphere..

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    September 16th, 2007 at 15:58
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    Josef Renklint:

    Wow, great shot. Such an unfriendly but yet beautiful scenery..

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    September 17th, 2007 at 12:24
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    mc:

    Unwelcome maybe but beautiful definitely!

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    September 18th, 2007 at 08:36

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Cold and wet and windy was our campsite at the foot of Carstensz Pyramid, the highest mountain of Australasia/Oceania. Though just a few kilometers lower the jungle is hot, here the cold and barren rocks make for an unwelcome atmosphere…

Shot in 1999 on regular Kodak film with Canon 500n, scanned later

Category: 7 summits • Landscapes • Mountains • Oceania • People

Image URL: http://exposedplanet.com/basecamp-of-carstensz-pyramid-papua/

Basecamp of Carstensz Pyramid, Papua

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