Dan Mazur's Kangchenjunga Spring 2002

Dispatch March 16th, 2002: We all rested in basecamp one more day, while Jon Otto and Michael Doyle went up to camp one, to continue fixing the rope. Today, the two Tibetan climbers, Pinso and Pemba, did a grand job of fixing rope past the cornice. It was quite an achievement for them, because they had been a bit uncertain, originally, of their own abilities. It had been a very windy day, so the task had been doubly difficult and amazing. They returned to basecamp tonight, looking a bit battered, and we gave them a special round of applause. They looked proud. Andrew nursed his knee, saying he could walk on the flat with it, but if he was going up or down, he felt pain. He said it felt like this several times before in his life, as he had had a series of old sports injuries, especially from volleyball, and on those occasions he had "taken several months off" whence the knee had healed. We were worried to hear this, and that Andrew might have reawakened an old injury that could prevent him from climbing with our team. 

Thank you very much. Cheers for now. Yours
Sincerely, Daniel Mazur from http://www.SummitClimb.com

Dispatches

Note: In March of 2002, this team is attempting the 7200 meter Mount Nojin Kansa (picture below), a moderate peak near Lhasa Tibet, which has never had a western ascent. In April-June of 2002, they will be attempting Kangchenjunga, the third highest peak in the world, located in Eastern Nepal.