Five young men. Two cars. And a long drive from Norway to climb the mountain Noshaq (7492 m) in Afghanistan. This is the tale of “The Norwegian Hindu Kush Expedition."
“Do you want to come along as medicine man and climber on the great Norwegian Hindu Kush Expedition of 1972?”
With rabbit testicles and spirochete bacteria in one hand and the phone in the other, I thought it over for a second and took one look at the rabbit testes. That was enough:
“Great. When do we leave?”
Those words are from a scrapbook the Skjerven brothers – Per Ludvig and Håvard Ove – got after their father, the physician and climber Ove Skjerven, who died in an avalanche in Peru in 1984. Their father’s climbing buddies had worked together to collect articles about the expeditions he had been on. Some were written by their father himself, such as the lines above.
They were gleaned from his own report to his employer, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, after the Hindu Kush expedition in 1972.
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