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Summit prospects
May 05 2009, 01:04 pm
Garbage Count: 4581 KG
It has been another eventful few days. At 12:35 today the first team reached the summit of Mt. Everest. Consisting mainly of Sherpas and one western climber, the team had been fixing rope for the last two days. Now with the way to the summit cleared, we will start seeing groups and individuals all heading up to the summit. The fact that the ropes have been fixed so early in the season is good news for all of us. Having the entire pre-monsoon weather window in the month of May ahead of us, this will avoid traffic jams and bottle necks.
In our own camp, Apa came back this morning from camp 2, having installed the second bhumpa. Nic, Jesse, Yury and Walter’s group have gone up to camp 3 for their final acclimatization climb. They will be returning to base camp in the next few days for their final rest before going for the summit.
Our weather reports and the Buddhist calendar both shows that the weather will turn bad before its turns better. At the moment, we are not looking at a summit window until after the 15th of May. In fact, the weather at base camp has been rather strange these last few days. We have had unexpected snow and strong winds. Two days ago, it was such a cold day that we were all huddled around the heater in the dining hall. Today, it was such a warm day that I spent most of the day wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
Bill, Bud and Will are back in camp after their little break in Pheriche as they went down to wait this bad weekend weather out. They report that they had a lovely restbut are happy to be back in base Camp again.
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Ranjana Patil
hi dawa, how u doing? hope evrythings fine now....good luck for the teams final summit....hope krushnaa is already for the final climb....want to thank all you people up there who have been helping our krushnaaa with her first time on the Everest........god bless you all.....
Constanze
No news since the tragic incident last week... So sorry about it, it made me very sad. Keeping my fingers crossed that everyone else is having a safe climb! Quite tough to not know anything nor get a hold of somebody, esp. when you have a dear friend out there on the mountain... Big hello to Tshering Pande Bhote - please take care of yourself!!! Namaste & best wishes from Germany
Ranjana Patil
Good afternoon Dawa, how are the things going? No news from your side? Looks like all very busy. No news from Krushnaa either. Hope all is well with her. How is she doing? Anyways you all take care....N best of luck.....
Ranjana Patil
Hi Dawa,
Great news that a team has already summited.....I hope the weather gets better by the time your team starts climbing....best luck to all...a lot of garbage up there... great work ....N how is our lilttle Krushnaa doing??? Hows her headache??? I hope she is fine....Any pics of her???? Want to see her.......
So take care of yourself n all....
Tadas
Hello everybody,
thanks for posting all updates and I would be very thankful if you say hi to Nic from Tadas - we climbed Mt Elbrus together in 2007.
Good luck with everything,
Tadas
Bikal
Dawa, what happened with the updates. You must be busy with the final summit push and other arrangement. Good luck
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