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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
Update:
April 25th
An
early start was anticipated today by the
Adventure Consultants team to head up to C2 where we
intended to spend two nights before making our way up
to Makalu La at 7400m. Heavy snow last night then high
winds this morning have put a damper on our enthusiasm
to go up and we are waiting to see what the weather
will do before leaving base camp. A thick blanket of
high cloud at around 9000m is purring in from the west
with various layers at lower levels hitting Makula's
west face and banking up over the top of us. It is
ominous weather and hard to tell what is following. It
may come fine but there is a lot of moisture in the
air still. High winds are stripping the upper slopes
of snow and we can hear the wind howling aloft, in
protest at having to force its way around this beast
called Makalu.
At
present our anticipated summit date is somewhere
around 12 May, based on our acclimatisation schedule
and progress to date. Naturally we anticipate this
date to change with the foibles of weather and the
reality of human frailty in this environment.
Next
update should be 29 April, until then, Namaste!
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.
