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Final Report / Katmandu    12 Nov, 05 - 16:59
We were ready to go at 6:30 on a very frigid (it was 28 degrees in our room) morning.

We were ready to go at 7:00.

We were ready to go at 7:30.

We ran a pool as to when the choppe

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A Real High For Our Last Day "On The Road"    11 Nov, 05 - 12:43
Trekked to Gorak Shep. It was longer & rougher than I remembered. An hour into the walk (pleasant, though chilly thus far) we hit moraine. I'd forgotten about that bit. So for the next hour a

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"Easy Days" Come Hard In Post-Climb Let-Down    10 Nov, 05 - 10:52
Yesterday's 3-1/2 hr descent from Ama Dablam Base Camp seemed like days, especially when we again had to bushwack up 500' of thick brush, traverse a few hundred yards, then bushwack back do

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Team All Safely Back In Base Camp - Summit Results Mixed, But Spirits High    8 Nov, 05 - 13:32
A sudden cold snap and acclimatization issues took their toll during the final summit push.

Team 1, whose composition became Jeff, Carl, Kami & Mark after MG had a bad night & decided to hold

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Goodbye to Scott/Summit Plans Form    2 Nov, 05 - 13:41
At breakfast, Robin came in looking like a chipmunk hoarding nuts for the winter (at least on one side of his face). Carl had told him the previous evening to expect to wake up to swelling, but we we

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Team Makes Foray Towards Camp 1   
Sleeping @ 19,000' after making a 4,000' jump is difficult at best. No one showed any ill effects, but it wasn't the most restful night for any of us. Robin had developed something of

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10/31 - Trip to Camp 1 A Tough Haul   

We left base camp at 9:30, moved reasonably, and reached Advance Base Camp @ 12:30. Moved up to our cache @ 18,000' by 1:00.

We loaded our packs w/boots & crampons, and put on our har

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The Quiet Before the Storm    30 Oct, 05 - 13:26
This morning we pulled together food & gear to be sent up by yak to Advance Base Camp (ABC). From ABC, our 2 climbing sherpas hefted most, if not all that gear to camp 1. Two trips per sherpa, a ya

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