Dispatch One: 04.04.2003,
Andrey Ershov: Our St. Petersburg Everest - 2003 Jubilee Expedition has
started. On April 1 all nine members arrived in Kathmandu where our Nepalese
partners of Royal Mt. Trekking met them. They were accommodated at the Harati
Hotel and they prepared and checked their equipment, food and other necessary
things on April 2. Yesterday they arrived from Kathmandu to Zangmu, crossed
the border and spent a night at the Zangmu Hotel. Today they have continued
their way to the Everest BC and have reached Nyalam.
The expedition team in its
present composition is strong and we hope that the expedition will be
successful. All our team members many times climbed 7000-m peaks, four of them
summited 8000-m peaks: Anatoly Moshnikov has two ascents of Mt. Everest and
one ascent of Dhaulagiri, Marina Ershova and Oleg Nasedkin summited Cho-Oyu
and Shishapangma, Vladimir Belous was on the top of Shishapangma too. Best
regards, Andrey Ershov