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Adventure
Consultants Everest Expedition 2002
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Friday
10 May: After a week of resting in Base Camp
in preparation for their summit attempt the climbers
are feeling fit and ready for the upcoming
challenge. The Sherpas have returned to Base Camp
from a few days off visiting their families and the
week has passed by with warm, calm days in BC but
high winds persisting about the South Col and over
the summit of Everest. All indications are
that the weather is going to improve next week so
the Adventure Consultants group plan to leave Base
Camp on Sunday 12 May for Camp 2, and they are then
aiming for Thursday 16 May as their probable summit
date. Check back regularly next week as we report on
their progress, especially on summit day itself. Report
by Suze Kelly, Adventure Consultants Saturday
11 May: Guy Cotter reporting from Base Camp;
" A small social get-together with the National
Geographic crew was arranged last night with Pizza
being the highlight of the gastronomic fare.
Tomorrow our team intends to once again ascend the
icefall and move through to C2. After a rest day the
team will move to C3 and then onto C4 for the summit
bid. Of course any plans in the mountains are bound
to change so the final decision to go will be made
from C2 with special consideration being made to the
weather and the number of people who will be trying
to make the ascent on the same day. Today
the team will concentrate on final arrangements and
preparations and at 5.00am tomorrow morning (12 May)
the crew will depart base camp for the Khumbu
icefall. Grandson
of Tenzing Norgay, Tashi Tenzing left base camp this
morning to make his bid for the summit as part of a
crew intending to film, and celebrate, the serious
attempt made by Tenzing and Raymond Lambert in 1952.
Lambert and Tenzing camped out without sleeping bags
or tent at 8600m and narrowly failed to reach the
top. Tashi summited with Adventure Consultants in
1997 and this would be his second summit if
successful. Good luck Tashi. Quote
of the day from a Sherpa regarding the Maoist
problem: "The name is Maoist, the politics is
Indian" (in reference to the Maoist problem in
Nepal, unrest which is eschewed by the Chinese but
sponsored and manned by Indians)".
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