Latest Alpinist.com newsTomorrow the 16th the whole team will head up to camp 2 for the last time. The weather looks good for the 19th and 20th, so we are going to try to summit both Lothse and Everest. Today hundreds of people went up to the icefall, we believe most of them will try to summit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dispatch from Sandra A River Runs Through It Base Camp is melting. It’s 13C outside and the birds are chirping. The area bordering the icefall has turned into a stream and the ground underneath our sprawling metropolis is shifting, causing landslides and tent slides. Spring is here and we all know that it means summit […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We had a couple of days rest in the lower villages, but we are back in Base Camp. Soon the weather will change to the better, but we still need some patience. There are a lot off rumors here in Base Camp about the weather, but no one knows exactly what is going to happen. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(1st – 6th May) The Khumbu Icefall, the Western Cwm and the Lhotse Face…… On the morning of the 1st May the team entered the Khumbu Icefall for the third time in order to move from Base Camp to Camp 2 at an altitude of 6400 meters, a height gain of 1000 meters in what […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today most off our team headed up to Camp 2 again at 6400m. This means it was a 2 am wake up call again in base camp. After some porridge and egg and toast everybody set off in the dark to scale the icefall once more. The whole team made it in good timings to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dispatch from Sandra All members of the team arrived safely back at base camp on 27 April, 2012. Since then, we’ve been hard at work sleeping, making ourselves presentable to the general trekking public – who, let’s be honest, deserve to see a good show of rugged, handsome and clean mountain climbers, washing – in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hello there at home. Last night we had the second night at camp 1. stormy night but very warm. We had to get up at 6 and tried to get going around 7. of course the speedys from our group were gone before that time but we got away around 7.15 . was still very […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Dr. Jon Kedrowski for SummitClimb.com It was an enjoyable day in the sunshine as the team headed into the lower reaches of the icy and flat sections of the Khumbu Icefall near basecamp for some enjoyable skill practice. Some buzz-words were spoken often by members: Super-califrag-alistic-expialidocious, Lethal Weapon, Vertical Limit, Ladder Dancing, and a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
April 20 and 21, 2012 This is Grace McDonald with a dispatch for the Summitclimb, Everest, Lhotse and Everest Training Climb Expedition 2012. We had a leisurely 8:00 am breakfast and then we were all off to our tents to sort out our packs for our trip up to Pumori Advanced Base Camp at approximately […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…