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Simone
Moro Everest/Cho Oyu 2002 Expedition |
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Note
two New updates are below:
Update
5/19/2002: Today the weather is all right
but very windy. I am organizing a rescue for two
Germans who after summiting with
oxygen are on the brink of not
returning...
As
always Everest doesn't forgive those who are daring
too much and are not well prepared. The top is not
at 8850 meters, but at base camp, when you are back
from the summit. More than 50% of the climbers who
are trying Everest haven't recognized that and more
and more people will die.
How
can it be that these people are not afraid of
Everest?
Ciao, Simone
Update 5/20/2002:
We
have had a terrible wind for three days now and many
climbers have returned to advance base camp crawling
or pulled by Sherpas as they can hardly walk by
themselves. Unfortunately, here, there are people
who will do anything to reach the summit and
discover once up that they have no energy to come
back. And if Everest sends some winds or clouds
cover the sky, then the game becomes very hard and
difficult.
Now
is the time to set limits and prevent many from
climbing Everest and get amputations or .... I
am caustic, but I am sick of organizing rescues or
dragging frozen people to their tents. These people
don't belong here.
Anyway,
besides this necessary comment, Mario, Ang Mingma
Sherpa and me will start tomorrow for the definite
climb to the top. We trust the forecast of good
weather for the 24th to be there to summit.
We
are at the grand final stage of our adventure and we
hope well.
In
fact tomorrow only Mario will go to C1 at North Col
at 7000 meters. The day after Ang Mingma and I will
go straight to C2, reaching Mario and going with him
to the top. From then on the three of us will be
together.
Tomorrow
news of the climb.
Ciao,
Simone Moro
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