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Adventure
Consultants Everest Expedition 2002
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Monday
6 May: Guy Cotter reported in from BC today
"Hello there, team are all down and feeling
good. All made good time to C3 and no problems
overnight for them so they, one and all, enjoyed
pizza and beer in BC on arrival back at BC. This of
course was preceded by homemade veggie soup and
chips and followed by banana cake topped with cream.
Today
we expect Haraldur's father and friend to arrive for
a visit as well as Celeste (AC Expedition doctor),
and friends Mel and Pog. Should be a busy one here!
Many
teams are planning to start summiting in a few days
with the Koreans sitting at C2 and intending to hit
the top within 4 days or so. The Swiss group,
featuring Tashi Tenzing (grandson of Tenzing Norgay
and a summiter with Adventure Consultants in 1997)
and the son of Raymond Lambert, who along with
Tenzing in 1952 had to turn back with the summit in
sight, are intending to try for the summit somewhere
around the 13th.
Our
group is still a little behind the leading groups
and expect the summit bid to be around the 15th or
16th, depending how the weather treats us. Several
other teams will be in synch with us at that time
also.
We
just heard from Ang Dorjee who is above C3. Already
today he has been to South Col (C4 at 7950m) having
started with a double load from C2 (6400m) this
morning. He has deposited his load at the Col
already and will be back in C2 at about 11.30am. The
rest of the Sherpa team he left with from C2 will
only be at South Col to drop their loads by the time
Ang Dorjee is already back at C2. Talk about fast!
He is then intending to arrive here at BC before 2pm
today.
The
Sherpas are doing a fantastic job and by today will
have deposited all our loads for the summit attempt
at the Col. They will go down valley to visit
families and probably confer with their local Lama
to get a blessing before going for the summit
attempt. We are lucky in our Sherpa team - all but
two have gone to the summit before and between them
they have 13 ascents of Mt Everest under their
belts."
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