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The IMG Cho Oyu Expedition Autumn 2002 |
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Follow the expedition: Update #1 August
27, 2002 The IMG Cho Oyu team, led by Assistant
Guide Mike Hamill, left the USA on August 23 and arrived in Kathmandu
on the 25th, where they were met by Expedition Leader Ben Marshall,
who had arrived a couple days earlier to finish the food and equipment
packing with the Sherpas. The team spent one free day in Kathmandu
getting the Chinese visas, doing last minute preparations, and taking
part in a special Puja with the Sherpas at the monastery near Boudhanath Stupa. All total the team is comprised of 2 guides,
10 climbers (3 guided and 7 non guided), 2 trekkers, 5 high altitude
Sherpas, and 2 Sherpa cooks. Here's the team roster as it appears on the
official permit... Click here for more... Cho Oyu - the "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan - is located at the frontier of Tibet and Nepal. At a height of 8201 meters, it belongs to the Himalayan range, about 30 km west of Everest. It is the sixth highest mountain in the world and was first climbed on October 19th 1954 by the Austrian Herbert Tichy, with Sepp Jochler and Pasang Dava Lama. "Finally, the peak is reached, the infinite hardships are ended. The last nine hours fighting with the mountain; the time in the death zone above 24,000 foot, the weeks of privations and hardships, even the risk of one's life - is this reward itself really? Yes, certainly! Not because of fame but inner satisfaction: To have found the mountain as friend and have been so near to the sky." Sepp Jochler.
The IMG Cho Oyu Expedition Autumn 2002:
The IMG Cho Oyu team, led by Assistant Guide Mike Hamill, left the USA
on August 23 and arrived in Kathmandu on the 25th, where they were met
by Expedition Leader Ben Marshall, who had arrived a couple days
earlier to finish the food and equipment packing with the Sherpas.
All total the team is comprised of 2 guides, 10 climbers (3 guided and
7 non guided), 2 trekkers, 5 high altitude Sherpas, and 2 Sherpa
cooks.
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