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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 aft

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].

As I men

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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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ABC 20th May 2005 Summit profile.   
Hi all,
We had the oxygen and radio briefing yesterday which definitely put us all in a more gung-ho mood.
The oxygen masks, regulators and bottles are all produced in Russia. The face-masks a

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ABC 18th - 20th May 2005.   
Hi all,
Im afraid the agonizing over the weather continues. Yesterday, the 18th was easily my "worst" day so far. I suffered from a painful combination of homesickness, boredom, and fear

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ABC. 15th - 17th May 2005.   
Hi all,
Well its deja vu. I arrived back at ABC yesterday the 16th, having left bc on the 15th and having spent one night again at desolate interim camp.
The trek up was easier than the previou

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BC [still] 12th - 14th May 2005.   
Hi all,
Well I was wrong by one day. The first group of us, myself included, will depart for ABC tomorrow [15th]. Although we are all probably fit or acclimatized enough to make the trek to ABC in

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