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First trip on the snow ABC 6400m – North Col 7050m
22 April 2005
**See the VIDEO file below for todays dispatch**
Our first foray onto the snow and ice of the mountain with boots, crampons and ice axes. Today’s climbing was to just touch the North Col and then
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Arrive Advanced Base Camp (ABC) 6400m
15 April 2005
Arrive in ABC ahead of group to get radios and help putting up the tents and commms equpient for the 62 people that would be here in a few days time.
Night time temp -19 C, day time in shade
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Base Camp Puja and packing 10km of Rope
12 April 2005
In preparation for heading up to ABC and climbing in the mountain we held a Puja ceremony to give us good luck on the mountain. The entire team will begin to move up to ABC 6400m over the next 4-5 day
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Arrive Everest Rongbuk Base Camp 5200m
8 April 2005
Finally we can see the objective, 3650m above us Mt Everest at 8850m towers above our BC with it’s dark rocky summit looming above us ominously with high winds tearing across the upper slopes dragging
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Canons and the hillside Fortress of Shegar
7 April 2005
In 1904-05 the British required most of their 8,000 troops and canons to break down the front gate to this hillside fortress, we took a more subtle approach uses smiles and just walked up the front tr
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Drive to Shegar - New Tingiri
6 April 2005
More driving, which was begining to wear a little thin by now, brought us to Shegar or New Tingiri, where we would stay for 2 nights before pushing on the Everest BC.
Our plan is to do an aclimati
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Driving Lhasa to Shigatse….
5 April 2005
A long drive (9 hours) over numerous 5000m high passes due to road works on the main highway. A few flat tyres and various stops made this a tedious day.
However staying directly opposite the
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