Wednesday, April 15, 2009

What's Happening on Everest Today??

Everest Base Camp 4/15/2009
Lat/ Long 17,500 ft.

by Seth Waterfall

Base Camp is a busy place these days as all of the teams have arrived and the route through the icefall is now open. In the daytime climbers and trekkers are constantly milling about camp, checking in with friends and other teams to see what everyone’s plans are. It’s quite a scene.

Since the Icefall Doctors completed the route to Camp 1 teams have been busy staking claims to the prime sites. At least one team has sent climbers to spend the night there thus starting their first acclimatization ‘rotation’. The Sherpas in our team went to Camp 1 the day the Icefall Doctors completed the final leg of the route and marked off an area for our camp there. Today our team carried loads of gear to the camp Read More…

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