Everest North Side Expedition
St. Petersburg Everest - 2003 Jubilee Expedition

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Follow Along: 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. Check here for the full dispatch.

This expedition is organized for the St. Petersburg Mountaineering Federation and devoted the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg and the 50th anniversary of the Mt. Everest first ascent. It includes very strong and experienced climbers from Russia and other countries. Andrey Ershov (he has organized many expeditions in the Pamirs, Tien-Shan, Kun-Lun and Himalayas) is the expedition leader, Anatoly Moshnikov (he has done a lot of high-altitude climbs, one ascent of Dhaulagiri and two ascents of Mt. Everest without bottled oxygen) is the expedition climbing leader and coach.

The training period is finished and the Expedition Organizing Committee announced the participants of the expedition:

All of them except Andrey Ershov and the doctor will try to climb Mt. Everest. At least three persons want to do that without bottled oxygen.