Everest - Dispatches - By CONTACT3.0

tents at base camp now up in the air due to melting ice

base camp doctor's station

22-05
22 May, 05 - 03:23 me-5350
We are still waiting at base camp for a favourable weather window (Sunday 22nd May). This year is a very unusual year for weather as the gathering monsoon has not pushed the jet stream away from the summit.
No-one has summitted from the south side yet and this is the latest time for the last 45 years.

We hope to move soon but currently the estimate is the end of the month.

Base camp is looking very different as the glacier ice melts and the tents look as though they are on platforms.

21-05 21 May, 05 - 01:49
Another rest day at base camp waiting for the weather!

A Korean team tried for the summit but were turned back about half way above camp IV due to the high winds. We understand that there was

19-05 19 May, 05 - 02:41
Today we descended from camp II down to camp I and then throgh the icefall to base camp. The weather forecasts for camp IV and the summit were not good and the next weather window is likely to be the

17-05
On the 17th we climbed up throuh the icefall for the third time and this time we went all the way to camp II. We avoided staying at camp I due to the recent avalanches.

It was a long hard cli