-Rob
IMG Link: http://www.mountainguides.com/everest-south08.shtml
IMG Everest Expedition
Dispatch #4
April 1, 2008
Good news from Kathamndu. Yesterday afternoon we had our briefing at the
Ministry and received our permits. This morning (Tuesday) Dave Hahn and
Justin Merle flew to Lukla by the fixed wing airplane, then to Shyangboche by
helicopter, where they were met by Ang Passang. This afternoon they will
do the briefing at the SPCC office in Namche and will pay for our Icefall
permits and garbage deposits. Tomorrow they will hike to Dingboche where
they will catch up with the expedition team. The team spent last night in
Deboche and today they are visiting Thangboche for an acclimatization day.
SO--tomorrow they will all be together. So far it sounds like everything
is going well with the group and aside from a few sniffles, everyone seems to be
acclimatizing normally.
Eric Simonson
IMG Link: http://www.mountainguides.com/everest-south08.shtml
IMG Everest Expedition
Dispatch #3
March 30, 2008
I am now back in Kathmandu after trekking up to Namche with the climbers and
trekkers. All team members have now reached Namche and everyone is doing
fine. The first group is getting ready to head to Thangboche today, after
a couple days of acclimatization in Namche and exploring the nearby villages of
Khunde and Khumjung. It was great to see our sirdar (Sherpa leader) Ang
Passang and some of his Sherpa team again. Right now we have about 20
Sherpas up at Base Camp working on building the camp. The SPCC (Icefall
doctors) are now at BC too, and may start work on the Icefall as early as
today. I flew back on the helicopter that we had chartered to fly in our
fourth load of supplies to Shyangboche. Ang Passang was arranging for this
load of food, duffle bags, equipment and oxygen to be loaded on yaks for the
trip to BC. We also sent some additional gear in yesterday by the Lukla
flights and it will be portered to BC. After moving over 30,000
pounds of gear we now have only about 2500 pounds of remaining gear to move, and
this should go in the next day or two.
On the permit front, after
all the anxiety of the last few weeks, we now have good news. Our agents
in KTM had another meeting yesterday with the Ministry and the Army chief who
will supervise the liaison officers and it sounds like everything is moving
forward. The Ministry has now accepted our permit payment this morning and
the formal briefing will be this afternoon. IMG guides Dave Hahn and
Justin Merle have stayed back for the briefing and when this is finished, they
will immediately fly to Lukla and head on up to join the climbers en route to
base camp.
So far so good--we'll keep you
posted!!
Eric Simonson
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