| Equipement To complete a expedition of this size The Swedish Hidden Peak Expedition is required to bring along 1.5 tons of equipement. The expedition will be bringing along both mutual and their own equipement. The equipement exist of the following items: Clothes (everything from underwear to gloves, outdoor clothes, caps and shoes) , for as well as warm weather and longer hikes, to clothes that are suitable for extreme cold alpine climbing, mattresses, climbing shoes (3 different types). Iron-ladders, ice-ax mid-size+short, skipoles, harness, holster for ice-ax, helmet, headlight with reseve kit, sunglasses, backpack, snowshoes, skiis, wire ladders, snow anchor, snow sticks, snow sticks for tent, ice screw, bolts, wedges, climbing rope, rope. Compass, altimeter, watch with alarm, satallite telephone, cameras, film, objectives, camera stand, binoculars, pocket knife, water bottle, urinary bottle, necessaries, wash towels, first-aid kit, sun block, skin lotion, base-camp tent, tent for higher camps, 6 high camp kitchen sets, 6 pots and pans, water filter, tools, fine tread, luggage, bags, hand shower, sewing kit, medicine (*) 5 snow shovels, 2 propane lamps, 1 propane kitchen, kitchen equipement, large water containers, tarpualin, walkman, different maps, PC laptop computer, digital video camera, penn and paper, passport, travel plans, different documents. (*) Example of different medicines: Penecillin, drip, aspirin, medicines for the eyes, stomach, mouth/throat and pain, antiseptic, disinfectants, sun-block, anti-mosquito preparation, creams for yeast infection, liniment, vitamines, compressants, thermometer, nail cutter, scissors, knifes, scalpel, syringes, bobby pins, different types of bandages, sterile wipes and tejp.
If you wish to recieve more information of these transfer techniques contact the expedition supervisor Johan Åkerström or our internet supplier Teknikhuset i Umeå.
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Internet
and satellite telephone
The expedition has brought
along technique to communicate with each other
and the rest of the world. On the mountain
traditional telephone connections can not be
found and normal cellular phones donot work -
instead the expedition uses a satallite
telephone. The satellite phone communicates via
satellites, which functions as a
"mirror" for the phone signal, this
works all over the world - at any height. The
phone is not dependant of a specifin network or
nearby mobilphone masts. The phone is used for
normal communication but also for communication
between computers.
From
the mountain down to this internet server...
Computer communication via a satellite telephone
exists of messages in the shape of text and sound and
digitalised pictures. Pictures are taken with a digital
camera which is connected to a portable computer. Before
the picture is sent it has to be compressed not to take
up more transfer capacity than necessary. All pictures
are documented with date, time, position etc. The
computer is connected to the satellite-telephone via a
traditional modem. The reciever in sweden is a ordinary
internet pool which is connected with this web- and mail
server. The material that is sent here is coded as usual
e-mail packages and decompressed in a normal manor. When
the material reaches our internet department it is down
loaded onto these pages.