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Summit Day Gallery [More to come]
    
Hi all,
Here are some of the pictures from my summit day [approx 7am - 4th June 2005]. There are a few stills, including the two "banner" photos on the top, plus the video I took, just after I had called Vanessa and my bigger kids from my sat-phone from the summit at approx 2 am their time. Unfortunately, the wind drowned out the sound of my euphoric raving whilst i was filming [which is probably a good thing!] but the pictures capture most of the experience. There will be many more photos and much more video, as I begin to process and post it [I can only post 3 pictures at any one time].
I plan to write a very detailed description of the 5 day climb for those who might be interested, as soon as i am fit and able.
More later
DT.

ps. working on posting the video.

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Made it ! - 4/6 success.   
Hi all,
I?m very pleased to report that I summitted Mount Everest, yesterday the 4th June, at approximately 7am [exact time to be confirmed on the Himex.com website in due course].

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Final dispatch prior to summit attempt - 27th May.   
Hi all,
At last! We have a confirmed departure date from ABC for our summit bid. The irony is that I cant put it into print owing the still numerous climbers watching our outfit for clues about ou

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ABC 21st - 23rd May 2005.   
Hi all,
The window seems to have appeared, in a concrete way at last. However, its still a few days away. The winds are clearly forecast to drop to almost zero kph between the 2nd and 4th of June b

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