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Alpine
Ascents International Cho-Oyu Cybercast, Tibet
(26,906ft/8,201m)
10/6/01
5:15pm, Cho-Oyu Advanced Base Camp, Tibet
Hi
everyone, this is Todd I'm Back in Base Camp the
whole group's down and safe and well. We
went up four or five days ago as Ruth reported, to
attempt the summit and we got to Camp II and
everything was in place and our team was strong
and great, and we got hit with some really hard
weather.
A big
storm came in and pinned us down and snowed for two
days straight and winds blew. It was a bit of a
battle to stay warm and keep things together, but we
did. But it ended up creating an avalanche
hazard up high, so after the weather cleared some, we
still weren't able to go up because of the avalanche
danger. So it was disappointing, but everybody
gave a great performance, and felt really good about
the climb. I was proud of the whole team; we
stuck together. We cleared the mountain
yesterday afternoon and we're back in Base Camp about
to have our first good dinner and celebrate our safe
return home.
So it
was a mix in that we felt like it was a great
expedition but the summit eluded us. It was a
good trip, and everybody is happy. Our yaks come
tomorrow afternoon and we'll head down on the 8th to
Base Camp where we will hopefully have jeeps on the
9th to drive to the border of China and Nepal and the
10th be back at the Yak and Yeti having some fine
dinners and getting ready to send everybody home.
it's been a great expedition and Tibet has been an
amazing experience for us and we look forward to
seeing everybody when we get back our best to
everyone, bye bye.
