Greetings from Sydney, Australia where we are beginning our final adventure of 2014. Located in the Snowy Mountains six hours by car from Sydney, is Mount Kosciusko or "Kozzy" as the Aussies call her. It's the highest peak in Australia and is considered by some as one of the Seven Summits. It all depends on how you define the continent, the Australian land mass, or the true continent of Oceania, which also includes Indonesia. We chose to climb Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia in Sept. 2008. Carstensz is over 16,000 feet high and involves considerable technical climbing. See blog archive for details: Carstensz Summit Day
The mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner and other purists count Carstensz as one of the Seven Summits, but we figured we should also climb Kosciusko to be absolutely thorough.
It's really more of a hike and there is no "climbing" involved other than climbing out of bed at an early hour in order to make it up to the 7,310 foot summit and back to the lodge in time for lunch and a cold beverage!
It may be a tad bit more of a challenge than my overconfident description may sound, as Denise is still in rehab mode from her knee surgery less than two months ago. Nonetheless we'll go slow and hopefully will encounter some kind of mildly adverse conditions to weave into our next blog post to make for a more exciting story! 😀 We'll report back sometime in the next few days to let you know how it goes, and meanwhile we hope you are enjoying your holidays.
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