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Gorak Shep — Last Stop Before Base Camp
April 6, 2008
IMG Leader Mark Tucker reports that the first group has reached Gorak
Shep (about 17,000') and the other teams are now in Lobuche. Gorak Shep is not a
village, just a couple of small lodges on the edge of the Khumbu Glacier
moraine, below the popular viewpoint of Kala Patar (about 1000' higher). A short
distance above Gorak Shep the route drops down onto glacier, and ascends through
the rocks and that cover the ice to the site of Base Camp. So far everything is
going well, and the climbers and trekkers are all on schedule, with the first
team planning to go to Base Camp tomorrow.
—Eric Simonson, IMG Director
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