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6/2/2000 Report
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Receiving Reports from Over 30 Teams on Everest this Spring 2000.
NEWSFLASH UPDATE: Those
Russians are still going at it on the North Side of Everest !
Two climbers,
Korshunov and Cherny, both are 65 years old an really strong and full of power.
At last report were going to attempt. We will see in a few days how far they go,
or if they made it !
Everest Spring South Side Summits:
Note: This List is
Draft !
EverestNews.com has compiled this list of summits from what we consider to be reliable
sources. The Ministry of Tourism in Nepal (which issues the permits to climb
Everest...) has stated that
most of the
climbers listed below have reached the Summit of Everest in Spring 2000.
Others could be added
to this list. Some
could be deleted... if they are disputed by climbers who were on the mountain.
This is not an exact science. EverestNews.com "summits" should be
considered an opinion by our staff, not historical fact. Therefore, yes
EverestNews.com claims copyright on our list !
1.) Guys from Everest
Millenium have done their last try for the summit without oxygen.
Claude-Andrι Nadon,
climbed and reached 8000m but as I said in the last update he was forced to
descend.
Then he stayed at
7300m for the night and then because of the bad weather, he decided to come back
to the Advanced Base camp where Bernard Mailhot was waiting for him. So that's
all the news, we will get a lot of pictures in 2 or 3 days.
2.) The only climber who is
believed to have reached the Summit from the North this year without the use of
bottled oxygen story continues: Juan Carlos
Gonzalez apparently spent the night between the first and second step
on the North Side of Everest. He made it down with the help of some other
climbers, but has problems
with frostbite on his hands. His Sherpa climber who was with him from the Euskaltel
Everest 2000 Expedition is reported to be in bad shape.
K2 2000 !
Waldemar is back !
As we announced
yesterday, EverestNews.com is planning to provide You with coverage of K2 2000
with reports from the Brazilian International Expedition 2000, Waldemar
Niclevicz Leader (7 members including Hans Kammerlander) and the USA
International Expedition 2000.
Introduction
from Waldemar:
Project
K2 2000
It's a pleasure to inform all of you that
I'll be back to K2 once more, trying to put Brazil's flag on the top of that big
mountain definitively. It's need to understand that nature has forced its
magnitude with an impetuous weather in the last two years, and that's why no
alpinist could accomplish such a climb. It's a very hard goal to be carried
out, undoubtedly, a difficult dream to be accomplished, but I understand all of
it as a big challenge and enthusiasm doesn't lack for new lunges.
I'm sure all experience I got in 1998 and
1999 will be essential for our success in 2000. The departure from Brazil has
already been fixed on Jun 1st and we're in mood to stay in Pakistan till the end
of August. I really hope that it's not necessary so long time, because our
arrival at base-camp is foreseen for June 14th and God willing,
we'll finish climbing its 8,611m until the end of July.
My idea is to arrive at K2 earlier, it's due
to the fact that I've realized in the last two years that there are better
weather conditions in beginning of July. So, in order to do
the final attack at that time it's necessary to be there a month before. Aiming
to diminish costs and save the alpinist's energy, we will attack K2 directly,
without climbing any other mountain before, as it happened in 1998 and
1999. My Italian friend Abele Blanc will participate in the expedition once
more, other alpinists have been invited, but the team will the defined only in
December 1999.
I'll be in touch with
other expedition leaders, so that all of them can reach K2 at the same time and
participate in the same strategy together in order to conquer K2. Since no
alpinists has accomplished the climb in the last two years and the next year
will be 2000, the world media will give special attention to the climb of K2. I
remind you that our expedition will transmitted on-line, via satellite by
internet once more with photos and information transmitted daily, on the
called K2 on-line, which will be back from Jun 1st 2000 on. All of this can
guarantee agreement with important communication means. The site will receive up
to 50 thousand accesses per day and with the TV program called "Fantαstico"
of Globo network will guarantee 50 million people per program at least. A
"Fantαstico's Team" will follow the expedition to base-camp and
during the expedition must happen three programs at least containing
unpublished images.
The good new is that I'll be taking a trekkers
group, that will follow the expedition to base-camp and afterwards will return
home. It's a good way of providing other people to live the emotion of a big
expedition at the same time afford Project K2.
I always believe that
it's very important to trust in our dreams and do the best so that they
can be carried out. So, I'll be there at K2 again and I hope to count on your
cheering once more.
Waldemar Niclevicz
Status: Departure
from Brazil, Jun 1st 2000.
Dear Friends! It's a
pleasure to start K2 online today, the daily transmission, via satellite, about
the climb to K2, considered the most difficult and dangerous mountain in the world.
In fact, what I'm
feeling in the beginning of the trip, it's not only because I'll have to
overcome 8611 meters of altitude but also because in the next three
months, together with man who are part of an elite of world alpinism, I'll be
involved by emotions and feelings that other human being could hardly feel out
of the mountains. We'll have ahead the nature in its all plenitude, in its
wildest way. Our glance will be of contemplation, amazement in front of such
beauty and an enormous demonstration of powers. The horizon will not exist
anymore, being replaced by accented slopes, peaks that go towards the sky all
around. We'll be closed in a special world: the man and the mountains. We'll not
have any other interest than reaching the heights, the desire to overcome our
limits in order to find, inside ourselves, the sense of our existence.
So, I leave you today
an invitation to ride the heights of K2 with our team. Waiting for us there will
be an adventurous world and many emotions. I rely on your cheering, on your
presence by spirit so that we can conquer that big challenge called K2.
Don't forget, from
today on, every days, access K2 online (www.niclevicz.com.br) The Project K2
2000 is sponsored by O Boticαrio, TAM, Net Vνrtua and Sportsjα.
Waldemar
Hans
Kammerlander will be a team member with Waldemar ...on Saturday more
details.
A
Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond by Jim Whittaker,
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