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Adventure
Consultants Everest Expedition 2002
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Friday
17 May: 0940 hours Nepal time. All team
members are coming down to base camp today and are
expected to arrive tonight. Bill, Dave, Ellen and
Haraldur left from the col at 9.00am and are already
at Camp 3. Rob and Tom have left from Camp 2 to
descend to base camp and Alan is already at Camp 2
after descending with Phurba. Alan is going to wait
for Dave and Bill & co. to arrive and will then
descend with them.
Today
Bill reported 50-60 knots on the col,
although it's calm and warm in base camp. No-one is
going up to the summit from this side. The
weather forecast looks not-so-good so maybe
yesterday was THE day! [Note
Adventure
Consultants as an IGO 8000 team has the weather
reports that has proved reliable the last few years.]
The
Ministry of Tourism reported 54 people on top from 8
teams yesterday. Russell Brice reported about 12-14
from the North side and 30 were expected to go
today from that side. Bill and Dave reported
that they were all feeling quite dehydrated since it
was warm for an Everest summit day.
The
Adventure Consultants expedition base camp crew are
planning a big party this evening and then people
will start leaving base camp from tomorrow. The yaks
and equipment loads will not leave from base camp
until May 22, as it takes a few days to clean all
the camps from the mountain and get everything
packed.
In
New Zealand the media have celebrated the Adventure
Consultants climbers' ascent of Mt Everest in
various papers, on the radio and on TV. An article
in the Southland Daily Times erroneously stated that
Passang Tenzing was the grandson of Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa! They have been corrected on this so as not
to confuse with Tashi Tenzing's successful ascent of
Everest yesterday.
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