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A Break After the Camp 2 Rotations
April 30, 2008
IMG
Leader Mark Tucker reports that most of the IMG climbers have now returned today
(Nepal time) to Base Camp after the acclimatization rotation to Camp 2. Justin
Merle and his guided team remain at C2 and will be down tomorrow. After that, we
are anticipating that Everest will be "shut down" for the next few days while
the Chinese make their climb. Our Camp 2 sherpa staff has been permitted to stay
at C2 to maintain this camp, but everyone else is supposed to be off the
mountain.
Tucker reports that some of the IMG Sherpa team has now
been released to make their well deserved run down the valley to their home
villages — they will be back in a few days (this is an annual event which they
look forward to). Meanwhile, a number of the sherpas have been held back at Base
Camp to be ready to start working on the route to Camp 3 as soon as we get the
green light.
—Eric Simonson, IMG Director
All Well at
Camp 2 and Promising Weather
April 29, 2008
IMG Leaders Mark
Tucker and Ang Jangbu report that everything is going well on the mountain. Most
of the IMG climbers are still up at Camp 2 doing their acclimatization rotation
up there. Our custom weather forecaster Michael Fagin in Seattle
(www.everestweather.com) tells us that the tropical cyclone Nargis in the Bay of
Bengal is now trending away from Everest (we had been watching that with some
concern). This is good news — hopefully, with improving weather, the Chinese
will make the summit soon, and everything will revert to
normal!
—Eric Simonson, IMG Director
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