Roger and Andrew are spending all this week in and around the Seorak Mountains, the fittingly-climactic-beautiful end to their grand 10-week trek of discovery. Just yesterday they were escorted by soldiers to scale Hyangno-bong (last major named peak of the Baekdu-daegan before the DMZ line), normally closed to civilians. As before, the latest news and photos are found on their Blog.
The official Finishing-Ceremony Event is now scheduled to be held around 3:00 pm on this Saturday afternoon (Nov 10th). It will be in the rest-area parking lot at the Jinbu-ryeong Pass on National Highway 46, just north of Seorak-san National Park in Gangwon Province. We will festively welcome Our Kiwi Heros as they complete their final ridge-descent, hold a little finishing-ceremony, then move together into Seorak-san park for a great dinner (sanchae-jeongshik!) and plenty of drinks (featuring my own homemade 2-yr-old Jiri-san deodeok-ju!). Perhaps a group hike on Sunday morn — the magnificent Geumgang Cave or somesuch. Anybody and everbody who supports the concept and purpose of this project is VERY much welcome to join us for this ceremony / party! We want a cross-section of the foreign and domestic moutain-loving communities… Media coverage of any sort is quite welcome… So come along if you’re able. Just contact me at zero11-nine743-nine753 for details…
Then they come back to Seoul, after 10 weeks on the trail! Media events and info-organizing. On the evening of Tuesday November 13th, we three will give the Royal Asiatic Society Lecture with slideshow about the Expedition, 7:30 at the Somerset as usual. Then it’s mostly OVER… except for the writing of the papers and books (mostly my job).
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“Over”…the hike continues…in spirit and mind beyond the 38th… “it is never over…”, no one falls off a mountain, they just bounce a lot.
Congratulations to the Kiwi gents on completing their amazing trek!
This evening “Sanshinseon” gave me direction. No maps, no roadside stops, or flea shows. If you have the guts and “BALLS” and “Ovaries” to show, I have the road map to a great place, for where everyone else might go. I’ll be there with sensitive heart, for you and everyone else. I look forward to meeting you all, in the same place.
I’m glad that douch made it.
{sigh}
Well, whoever is coming, we’ll see you at 3 tomorrow!
Hoping for no rain…
SBS-TV is sendind a crew out to cover us, and it should be National.
Look for us on SBS news!
Oh, well, now it last-minutely seems that we DON’T have an SBS-TV crew, as they’re all tied up with political-manuvering stories… Damn.