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Ascents International Cho-Oyu Cybercast, Tibet
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9/5/01
10:10am, Yak & Yeti Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal:
Hi everybody, It's Todd, and I'm at the Yak
& Yeti in Kathmandu, Nepal. It's the
5th of September, Our entire group arrived
yesterday, everything is in order, everyone is
healthy and excited about the trip. We did
a gear check last night had some walk arounds
and some some of the sights that are good to see
in the evening in Kathmandu. We've been
having rain every day but beautiful afternoons
and evenings. |
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leave to morrow for the border which is I
think an hour drive for us to Kotare, from
Kathmandu, so we'll load all of our
equipment, we have 80 loads and each load
weighs 30kg. That will be all of the
food and equipment for our entire
expedition, we'll put it on a great big
bus along with 16 of us, 12 climbers and 4
Sherpas and head for the border.
There are a few issues in crossing the
border at the time. There's one great big
landslide about five hours out of
Kathmandu on the road, so we're going to
have to stop, unload the bus, carry for
five kilometers all of our 80 loads and
get back on another bus on the other side,
and we have to do this twice before we get
to our first night. So we're going
to leave at 5am in the morning and
hopefully be able to make Kotare, and then
Zhangmu. Kodari is the Nepali border
crossing area, and we will cross the
Friendship Bridge, and climb uphill for
1,000 feet or so, to a small village
called Zhangmu, and that's where we hope
to spend the night, and then the next day
drive up to Naalam. But that is yet
to be seen, it will be quite a journey
tomorrow. Everyone is out right now
visiting different places, there at
Bodnath, where the largest Stupa in the
world is in the Buddhist Temple.
We'll have a Puja there, a religious
ceremony to bless the expedition, in about
three or four hours. People are
visiting Swamayabhu today, the famous
monkey temple, that is thousands of years
old, that is shared by the Buddhists and
Hindus at the top of the hill, beautiful
place, and then they'll go to
Pashupatineth, which is the holiest place
for the Hindus in Kathmandu.
Life
is great, everybody is in excellent
health, and they all say hello to all of
their families and we will call hopefully
on a day to day basis, and tomorrow's
going to be a big day so somewhere along
the line when we're trekking, we'll pull
it out give you guys a quick call and let
you know what it going on. All is
good on this side. |
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