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Adventure ConsultantsMakalu
2001 Expedition
Expedition
Leader: Guy Cotter - New Zealand
Team
members:
Robert
Stevens - USA
Jean-Claude Latombe - USA / France
Keith Kerr - UK / Hong Kong
Jim Milne - USA / NZ
Bruce Hasler - New Zealand
Mark Williams - NZ/ UK
Bryan
Moore - New Zealand
and
Takashi Ozaki - Japan / Hong Kong
More Dispatches:
Brief
updates from Guy Cotter over the past few days are as
follows:
Wednesday April 4 - At Sedua
"We're three days into the trek now and all going
well but it's hot! At only 1000m in elevation, we've
lost all our height as we descended from Num, and
crossed the Arun River and then gained some height to
get to here. Tomorrow we're off to Tashigon. The
weather has been good with evening rain last
night."
Thursday April 5 - At Tashigon
"We
had a great walk today to get here to Tashigon, with
an extra couple of hours trekking with Takashi
checking out the honey hunter locations. Takashi was
here in 1998 on an expedition to film a Japanese
documentary on the honey bee hunters in the Makalu
region. All are well and we'll be in
touch in a few days after we've tackled Shipton
Pass."
Tuesday April 10th - Barun Valley reached after
Shipton Pass
The Adventure Consultants Makalu Expedition 2001 team
members have reached the village of Shershon, in the
Upper Barun Valley. Guy Cotter reported by satellite
phone today that all in the group were doing well,
with the team members expecting to reach what is
called the lower Base Camp by tonight. The Kerr boys
will leave the expedition from Shershon and fly back
to Kathmandu in order to be back at school in time for
the new term as planned.
Shipton Pass proved to be quite a challenge with a lot
of snow to negotiate. Shipton Pass is actually a route
over three cols - the Kauma La at 3900m (12795ft), the
Keke La at 4127m (13540ft) and the Tutu La at 4075m
(13370ft).
Every night and most afternoons there has been rain or
snow falling, hence they have had very little sunshine
hours available to re-charge the satellite phone and
computer with the solar panel recharging system. Thus
only a few email messages have been able to be sent to
those back home. The expedition should all reach
Makalu Base Camp by the 12th of April and will have
more regular communication with the outside world from
there. All the base camp and expedition climbing
equipment has arrived successfully by helicopter from
Kathmandu to the lower Base Camp and is being ferried
by porters to Makalu Base Camp, co-ordinated by Dawa
Thundu Sherpa.
Snow
in the Kingdom : My Storm Years on Everest by
Ed Webster, Peter Williams (Editor),
(Illustrator) This item will be published in
November 2000. You may order it now and we will
ship it to you when it arrives.
