April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011 7:19 pm Everest BC Before ever setting foot on Everest, or other Himalayan peaks for that matter, it is customary for the Sherpa staff and climbing members to celebrate a "Puja," an offering to the mountain in exchange for safe travel and good weather for the teams.
April 18, 2011
We're posting from 18,600' while on an acclimatization hike we're taking to Camp 1 on neighboring Pumori (7145m) today. It's a bit cloudy and windy, so we aren't getting the great views of Everest, but it feels good to get the legs and lungs working. We'll hang out up here
April 16, 2011
Base Camp, April 16 -Bill Allen We woke to the usual beautiful blue skies this morning here at base camp. After another delicious breakfast, we went into the ice a few hundred feet from camp to practice some ice climbing and rappelling in anticipation of heading up through the icefall
April 15, 2011
April 15, 2011 4:15 pm -Chris Davenport Hello everyone and welcome to another dispatch from Everest Base Camp. We arrived here two days ago to the delight of all the team members. The novelty of the trek and teahouses had pretty much worn off and we were all ready to
April 13, 2011
Chris called the following podcast in from Everest Base Camp this morning. It sounds like everything is going great with the team. Here's Chris: [audio:http://mteverest2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/davenport-ebc-arrival.mp3]
April 12, 2011
Ama Dablam as we are leaving Dingboche Tawoche on the way to Lobuche Shepherds hut with standard Himalayan scenery Cholatse Photo’s from Neal Beidleman
April 12, 2011
April 12th- We hiked up to Gorak Shep today, the site of the last lodges before reaching base camp. It isn't really a village, but more a small collection of six or eight lodges built for trekkers. We are only a couple of hours hike from BC now, so we're
April 10, 2011
April 10, 2011 Dingboche, Khumbu Valley. We are now just two days away from Everest base camp and feeling fit and ready to move up. The last two days were spent in Dingboche, a village at 4300 meters at the confluence of the valley the leads up to Island Peak
April 9, 2011
Bill Allen, Dingboche. April 9, 2011 We’ve all met up finally in Dingboche at our favorite lodge, the Snow Lion. Gregg Mellon and Debbie have been trekking with a group of friends and have already visited base camp. They came back down the valley to join us yesterday here in
April 6, 2011
The team is re-united in Namche. It was great to get our our entire team together tonight. The 2nd part of the climbing crew, Scott, Newall, and Irek, along with Diane and Laurie (who are joining us for the trek into base camp) arrived in Namche to great weather and
