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Everest
50th Anniversary Expedition: 1953-2003 in 2002! |
Update
5/26/2002: Peter has arrived at Base camp. He is
safe and ok. He has a problem with his big toe, that
was almost frozen on Summit day. The monsoon has
started and everything is covered in a cloud.
Update
5/25/2002: Peter has arrived back at South Col with
the rest of the team in about 4 hours! They are
descending to Camp 2 as they are short on oxygen.
Update
5/25/2002: Brent Bishop, Pete Athans,
Peter
Hillary, and a small group of strong Sherpa climbers
have all summited Everest. Peter is talking with
CNN! The snow as deep on the way up, the clouds are covering
Lhotse and Peter is running out of oxygen. His feet
are cold. Got to get down!
Update
5/25/2002: 1 AM East coast time in American around
12:00 in Nepal, Peter Hillary has not turned around,
but is right now at the bottom of the Hillary step.
His big toe is cold, but he is still going...
Update
5/25/2002: Brent Bishop, Pete Athans,
Peter
Hillary, and a small group of strong Sherpa climbers
left Camp 4 and are making the push toward the Summit.
Update
5/24/2002: It is expected, but not yet confirmed
that Brent Bishop, Pete Athans,
Peter
Hillary, and a small group of strong Sherpa climbers
are making the push toward the Summit. The Hungarian
are reported to have left camp 4...
Update
5/24/2002: Peter Hillary, and the others are at Camp
4. The temperature is really warm. They expect 30
knots winds on the Summit on the 25th (in Nepal).
Awaiting a decision on weather they will go for
it...
Update
5/24/2002: They are on the move, with high winds on
the mountain....
Update
5/23/2002: Reliable sources report to
EverestNews.com that the "Everest
50th Anniversary Expedition: 1953-2003 in 2002"
have made it through the icefall to camp 2. On
Friday they go up to Camp 4. If the wind is not too
bad, they will go for the Summit. Their weather
forecast is "marginal". Stay tuned, we
will be working all weekend!
Update
5/21/2002: Reliable sources report to
EverestNews.com that the "Everest
50th Anniversary Expedition: 1953-2003 in 2002"
is going to try one more time! Brent Bishop, Pete Athans,
Peter
Hillary, and a small group of strong Sherpa climbers
will make the push toward the Summit this week, with
an expected Summit date of the around the 25th. Stay
tuned...
Peter descended to all the way
to Base camp yesterday. Peter is feeling ill, and
got sick at Camp 2. Michael and Jimmy, who are
filming the expedition had a terrifying story of a
narrow escape from death. They were coming through
the ice fall with the 4 women from Eric Simonson
team close behind, when pinnacles imploded. One
climber was left suspended on a ladder, but no one
was hurt... They were lucky.
Update
5/20/2002: Reliable sources report to
EverestNews.com that Peter descended to all the way
to Base camp yesterday. Peter is feeling ill, and
got sick at Camp 2. Michael and Jimmy, who are
filming the expedition had a terrifying story of a
narrow escape from death. They were coming through
the ice fall with the 4 women from Eric Simonson
team close behind, when pinnacles imploded. One
climber was left suspended on a ladder, but no one
was hurt... They were lucky.
Update
5/19/2002: Reliable sources report to
EverestNews.com that Peter Hillary and the team is
on the way down. The weather is unstable and is too
rough to stay up at Camp 4. They think the weather
is getting worse.
Update
5/19/2002: Reliable sources report to
EverestNews.com that Peter is still on the South Col. He
had to cancel his attempt last night due to dreadful
winds and snow. Reliable sources at base camp are
not optimistic about Peter's success. The expedition
is expected to wait it out another day and then
maybe come back down and see if they can try again
in time.
Update
5/18/2002: Reliable sources report to
EverestNews.com, that as of yesterday, the team was
pushing up for a summit bid. Peter was in Camp 3.
The plan was to leave at around 4 in the morning of
the morning of May 18th and trek to Camp 4. The
cameraman has been somewhat ill, so it is unsure if
he could go with the team to Camp 4. Then the team
would rest and leave at about 11:00 PM on the 18th
(in Nepal) for the Summit of Everest. They feel the
weather is going to get worst on the 20th, however
we know that it has already gotten worst. As
reported earlier by Guy Cotter, his forecast called
for the bad weather that has now occurred
(correctly). Is it too bad to attempt the Summit? Or
will it change good again? It seems best described
as "unstable" right now... Stay tuned
“Tenzing
Norgay Sherpa was more than a highly motivated man.
His first ascent of Chomolungma is a story of
passion, hardship and endurance. In this book, his
son Jamling engagingly illustrates his own passion
to follow his father's route -- and his father's
dreams -- to the roof of the world.” Reinhold
Messner
A
Year early! Unlike the Swiss
Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition 1952-2002, the Everest
50th Anniversary Expedition 1953-2003 (our name for
it, not theirs!) is coming to Everest a year early.
The word on the street among the climbers is
that this expedition will be a predominantly American
expedition led by Pete Athans which will make a film
for television to be released in 2003. Members are
expected to include: Pete Athans (6 time Everest
Summitter and expedition leader), Brent Bishop (son of Barry Bishop the 12th man to Summit
Everest), Peter
Hillary (son of Sir Edmund Hillary), and Jamling
Tenzing Norgay (son of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa).
This
expedition's focus will be a documentary film called
"surviving Everest". The film will be
released in May 2003 on the 50th Anniversary of the
1st summit of Everest. Sources tell EverestNews.com
that, it was decided to make the film a year early so
it could be released on the 50th Anniversary. The film
will focus on the younger Hillary, Norgay and Bishop
as the have relived their father's Summits. At this
point they are still determining if the expedition
will be covered on the web this year. We will have
some news on them either way, as we cover Everest :)
Peter
Hillary (54), will return
to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his Father's
successful summit of Everest on May 29th, 1953. Peter
will attempt the mountain via the same route as his famous
father, the south east ridge.
Tashi Tenzing, grandson of Tenzing Norgay, who will be
a member of the Swiss
Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition 1952-2002, will
be attempting Everest via the same route as Peter, not
on a different route as has been widely reported on
the news wires.
Brent
Bishop, son of Barry Bishop the 12th man to Summit
Everest on 5/22/63, reached the Summit of Everest
himself 5/9/94. Brent and Pete Athans are expected to
attempt the West Ridge, no not the
Bulgarian route, but more on the route later...
Jamling
Tenzing Norgay, son of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa will come
to base camp with this expedition, but is not expected
to attempted to Summit again. Jamling
Tenzing Norgay was born on April 23, 1965, in
Darjeeling, India, the fourth of six children. By age
six, he had already shown a penchant for peaks,
scaling mountains in Sikkim with his father, Tenzing
Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary, became the first
climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Jamling
quickly became his father's right-hand man on climbs
organized by the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. In
1985, Jamling moved to the U.S. to attend Northland
College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where he studied
business administration and graduated in 1989 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree. While there, he worked as a
black-belt instructor in karate and Tae Kwon Do. In
1986, Tenzing passed away, and Norgay began to
think more seriously about Everest. In
1996, Jamling Tenzing Norgay summitted Everest, just
two weeks after nine people died on Everest. Not only
did Jamling Tenzing Norgay make it to the top of
Everest—described by the Sherpa people as “The
Mother Goddess of the World”—but he also helped
capture it all on film. As a star of Director David
Breashears Imax film Everest, Norgay helped to portray
not only the physical challenges of the Mountain, but
also the mental and spiritual challenges faced by the
climbers. Today
Norgay runs his adventure travel company in
Darjeeling, India and is often asked whether there are
more big summits in his future. “I promised my wife
that after Everest, I would never climb again,” says
Norgay. “I will not break my word.” He lives in
Darjeeling, India with his wife and daughter. Sounds
like Jamling
plans on keeping his word, good for him !!!
Tashi
Tenzing, tells EverestNews.com, there is no truth to
the reports again in the news wires that Tashi and
Peter Hillary plan to meet on the Summit of Everest.
The wires report also state that Tashi and Peter will
be on different routes when in fact they will be on
the same route... "quite
inaccurate" reports out there....
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