In 2018, an expedition team failed on a variety of organisational issues. The biwak was temporarily stored at an altitude of 4,000 metres in order to complete the mission one year later with helicopter support. In 2019 October a team of 15 people returned to Kathmandu. The project participants initially chartered a bus there due to the large quantities of tools and equipment. It took around twelve hours from the Nepalese capital to the Naa Valley, close to the Tibetan border. From an altitude of around 1300 metres, the trail then marched for about a week on foot to the point where the biwak was built up in the Rolwaling Valley. The team, which was occasionally accompanied by up to 25 Nepalese carriers, had to overcome almost 4,000 metres of altitude. In order to avoid the occurrence of altitude sickness, the stages were deliberately kept small. This allowed them to get used to the height step by step. The sleeping heights were also not more than 300 to 400 metres apart per day.
