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Dispatch Three September 2, 2003: IMG guides Chris Booher
and Mike Hamill report that everyone has made Base Camp and are doing fine,
after an interesting trip across Tibet. They arrived on schedule in Lhasa on
the 26th, where the team spent several days being tourists. Highlights
included an unusual trip to the Drepung Monastery where the annual festival
was taking place. The team also visited the famous Potala Palace (home of the
Dali Lama), the Johkang Temple, and the Barkhor market. On the 28th the team
traveled by jeep to Shigatse, where they visited the Tashilumpo Monastery
(home of the Panchen Lama). On the 29th they traveled to Tingri, where they
met with the Sherpas who had come overland from Nepal via Zhangmu.
Their trip had been difficult, with the road washed out in
several places by mudslides, which required that they hire porters to carry
all the gear around the roadblocks and hire new trucks on the other side.
After an acclimatization day in Tingri, the Sherpas went ahead and started
setting up Base Camp at about 15,000 feet. The team followed a day later,
arriving on the 31st, after several hours of jeep riding across the Plains of
Tingri and along the moraines of the Gyabrag Glacier. The plan for the next
few days is to organize, acclimatize, and get ready for the trek to Advanced
Base Camp.
—Eric
Simonson,
International Mountain Guides Director

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