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Adventure
Consultants Cho Oyu Expedition 2001
Update
Thursday 20 September 2001 - Overnight Camp I
After
a two day sortie onto the mountain to spend a night at
Camp I, the AC team are back at Base Camp today for a
couple of rest days. They slept overnight at Camp I on
the night of the 18th, and the following day climbed
the ridge above Camp I to the base of the ice cliff
before turning around to descend all the way to BC.
The
weather has been very stable for the past 3 days, and
tomorrow should see some of the first teams to arrive
at the mountain this season make their summit
attempts. The AC Expedition plan to spend two days
resting, then on Sunday Sept 23 they will climb to
Camp I, then Camp II the next day, and descend the
following day, Tuesday Sept 25th. Allowing more rest
days after that and all going well with the weather,
they will then be thinking about their summit attempt.
Two
members of the expedition are going to turn around and
start the journey home. Bernhard and Dietmar have both
made the decision to leave and will be back in
Kathmandu in a few days time. John Taske would like to
publicly say hello to the team at OMI back in
Australia, in particular Bruce Kiehne, Tony Horstman
and Ian Phan. Next update will be on Sunday Sept 23.
