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Adventure
Consultants Everest Expedition 2002
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Wednesday
15 May: Updates continued 1300 Nepal time;
Just
heard from Dave at 1230. He's just arrived on the
col with the others behind him. The weather is warm
but it's now snowing lightly. Ang Dorjee and Chuldim
went up to the balcony to fix ropes last night and
arrived back this morning. Whilst plans were made
for Sherpas from several teams to help with the rope
fixing, only a couple of other Sherpas were there to
assist. Waist deep snow on the SE ridge made the
going difficult but the work will very much benefit
the efforts the climbers and Sherpas will be faced
with tomorrow.
1520
Nepal time; I just spoke to Bill at Sth Col. All are
resting, eating, drinking and generally getting
prepared for the big night ahead. It appears there
are about 50 people at the col ready to make the
attempt tonight so numbers are not quite as bad as
we had thought.
The
plan is for one team to go ahead with Sherpas to fix
ropes with the other teams following up later. The
Adventure Consultants team will depart about 10 or
10.30. We will be following them from base camp and
sending regular updates with progress.
Weather
is fine and warm with some intermittent snow
flurries which are dying out. Over the last couple
of hours the weather has improved after the
afternoon thermals have begun to dissipate. That's
it for now, Guy Cotter
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