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Alpine
Ascents International Cho-Oyu Cybercast, Tibet
(26,906ft/8,201m)
9/20/01
9:35pm, Cho-Oyu Advanced Base Camp, Tibet
Hi
everybody it's Todd, it's about 9:30 on Wednesday
night. We have been out and been working
pretty hard the last couple of days. We did
a carry up to Camp I from ABC which is 21,000
feet. It's right on the ridge, a beautiful
ridge, overlooking all of the valleys around and
all of the beautiful mountains. It's a long
ridge, you have to walk about three or four hours
up a glacier moraine, it's safe but kind of
broken, a lot of ups and downs, and little hills
and then we go around a kind of scree slope for
about another 1,500 feet, so we are able to
actually go to Camp I just in regular trekking
boots, which is pretty amazing for 21,000 feet.
Everyone's
doing fantastic and in good health. We had a
rest day today and we did some Jumar practice and
some technical things that we need to work on for
the mountain. Tomorrow will be another rest
day for us we and then will move up to Camp I and
sleep and then head up towards Camp II. The
weather's been fantastic it's just beautiful and
sunny here and the group's happy and eating well,
and the mountains are beautiful, we've had some
beautiful nights, the stars and the milky way are
out. All of the climbers seem fit and ready
to go up the hill. Life is good here in base
camp, it was a very hard day, but everybody pulled
through it really really well and our
acclimatization is going along good.
Also,
quickly about our Puja, we had a Puja, the day
before we went up. It was great, Tsering,
one of our four Sherpas, he used to be a Lama,
now he is called a Bhikkhu Lama, and that means
he has changed from being a Buddhist Priest to a
climbing Sherpa. He did a beautiful Puja
for us, we put up our prayer flags and made the
Tsampa flour and went through the variety of
blessings and burned juniper and asked blessing
of the deities and gods of the mountains to let
us climb safely. It was a beautiful
experience and it was another beautiful and
sunny day. The weather's been really good
since we've been here. That's it for our
cybercast right now, we hope everybody in
America is great, and we wish you all the best.
Bye bye.
