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Daily News: 3/6/2000 Report
- Everest Spring 2000: More Details
Expedition name: Hosei
University Everest 2000 Climbing Expedition
Objectives: To climb Everest from
the Chinese-Tibetan side, via the East Lombuk Glacier, ascending the North Ridge.
Schedule:24/03/2000-31/05/2000
Logistics: Japanese team - 18
members. Sherpa - 10 members, Total: 28 members
Expedition leader: Toshio
Nakamura (60 years)
Leaders statement of purpose:
Expedition statement of purpose !
The expedition aims at including a
vast range of age-groups. It includes members who are still undergraduate students (2) as
well as various members who are over sixty years old (5). That is the age of
the various members ranges from 20 to 65. The main aim of this years expedition will
be to break the current world record for the oldest
ascent of Mount Everest. (60years and 160days according to your web-page).
Yours Sincerely
Nakamura Toshio
Daily News: 3/4/2000 Report
Asian Trekking will have 8
expeditions to Everest from the North and 4 to the South this Spring. Asian in some cases
heads the expedition, on others expeditions they support the expeditions at various levels
from providing BC support, to providing climbing Sherpas. Expeditions purchase the level
of the support.
Included in the expeditions on
Everest that will be supporting by Asian Trekking in Spring 2000 are: Dutch Panaroma
Everest Expedition: Leader, Hans van der Muelen (who has reached the Summit of K2);
British Everest Expedition, Leader Dave Allision Pritt; Russian Everest Expedition of 20
climbers: Leader Skripko Viatcheslav; Himalayan Experience Everest Expedition; Ken Noguchi
Everest Cleaning Expedition; International Everest Expedition; Nepalese Women's Millenium
Everest Expedition, plus others.
It appears like another busy Year
for the Sherpas climbers from Asian Trekking.
Daily News: 3/3/2000 Report
- Everest Spring 2000: Things are
heating Up !
Graham Hoyland and the BBC returns
to Everest in Spring 2000 in search
of
the camera and Irvine. EverestNews.com discussed Graham's plan with him yesterday by phone
again.
Graham tells EverestNews.com,
"Mark Whetu (who has reached the
Summit of Everest twice) will film for us. " On the Expedition, "I am a 'member' of the Expedition as you
correctly stated in the news yesterday. Mark
and I will do the search for Irvine and the camera."
EverestNews.com will post a further
report on Graham plans next week. For anyone who does not know Graham's role is a little
different than many climbers, in that, he is an employee of the BBC. Graham is a producer
for the BBC.
Graham's will officially announce
the Expedition in his Lecture Unraveling the
Mystery of George Mallory in Washington D.C. You can now buy tickets on-line: See
Unraveling the Mystery of George Mallory.
- K2 2000 ! EverestNews.com will again
cover Summit attempts of K2, for the third year.
This year several expeditions
including Japanese, Korean, and American are planned. EverestNews.com will again cover the Brazilian alpinist Waldemar Niclevicz
and his Expedition. The biggest
surprise in the expedition is the Italian
alpinist Hans Kammerlander, one of the best alpinists ever, will be sharing the permit
with Waldemar. These two who both were
on K2 last year, will attack the mountain again in 2000.
For
the details of this exciting Expedition.
NEWSFLASH 3/2/2000 Report
Graham Hoyland and the BBC returns
to Everest in Spring 2000 in search of the camera and Irvine.
Graham will return as a member of
Russell Brice's Expedition that includes Chris Warner, Andy
Lapkas, and Mark Whetu, plus around 7 other clients. Brice continues to use Asian-Trekking
for his support and H.A. Sherpa climbers. In 1999, Brice did not use any western guides,
but used Sherpas from Asian-Trekking.
Therefore, this expedition is
expected to be much different than M&I 1999, in that there are clients and guides
rather than climbers supported somewhat by funding (mainly BBC & Nova) to search.
EverestNews.com has been in contact
with members of this expedition for several weeks. Some members at least knew that a BBC
producer was going on the Expedition, but did not seem to know a name.
Other members of last year
expedition, have been aware that Graham was planning on returning for several weeks.
Therefore, this is old news to them.
Graham was planning on announcing
the Expedition in his Lecture Unraveling the
Mystery of George Mallory (You might want to be there) later this month, until the
News leaked.
At least one other member of last
year's expedition also has attempted to put together a plan to return in 2000, but so far
has failed to raise the necessary funds.
Daily News: 3/2/2000 Report
News from the French Canadians: As reported on EverestNews.com last week, they have left Canada and have
arrived in Nepal (the first team to do so). They appear to be having fun. Since they are
going to Everest without Climbing Sherpas and oxygen, maybe now is the time !
Check them out for some nice
pictures and video: http://www.everestmillenium.qc.ca/jdb.asp.
In a few days they leave for Tibet.
While the Canadians are playing in
Nepal, the Dutch are having fun Mountaineering in Holland. The challenge was to climb both
the highest mountain of Holland (Vaalser berg: 322 meter) and the highest mountain of
Belgium (Baraque Michel: 694 meter) in a weekend. Is it fun? Yes, even with a motorway on
both summits. Click
here to read the whole story.
EverestNews.com will be working
with (http://www.everest.home.nl)
Frits Vrijlandt and Steven Le Poole, as they attempt to climb Everest via the North ridge.
Joke Groenendaal who will climb, but does not plan to attempt the Summit, will keep you updated.
Check them out http://www.everest.home.nl !
Daily News: 3/1/2000 Report
- Unraveling the Mystery of George
Mallory
Friday, March 17, 7 p.m.
Last May's startling discovery on
Mount Everest of the remarkably well-preserved body of legendary explorer George Mallory,
75 years after his ill-fated attempt to conquer the summit, represents more than the
culmination of an historic and daring expedition. As told through the eyes of Graham Hoyland, mountain climber, BBC producer, and great
nephew legendary climber Howard Somervell, it is a rare tale of kinship, curiosity, and
perseverance several generations in the making.
Somervell and Mallory were dear
friends and one-time climbing partners. They crossed paths for the last time in June of
1924 upon Everest as Mallory and his partner, Sandy Irvine, were making their historic bid
for the summit. Somervell loaned Mallory his Vest Pocket Kodak in the hopes that they
would succeed where others had failed and capture the moment for all the world to see.
Mallory and Irvine disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen alive again. Somervell's
camera would become the most tantalizing clue to one of the most enduring mysteries of our
age: Did Mallory and Irvine actually manage to reach the summit during that 1924 ascent?
Even as a young boy, Graham Hoyland
nurtured an obsession with going up onto Everest to find his great uncle's camera which
might still have retrievable images within. Hoyland would grow up to become both a
mountaineer and a television producer and would finally convince the BBC to back him and
an international film crew on the 1999 expedition that, in search of these answers, found
Mallory himself.
Hoyland shows clips from the
documentary he co-produced, discusses his experiences on the expedition and his lifelong
fascination with these daring men, and ads to the debate of the great Mallory mystery.
Location: Baird Auditorium,
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
Institution, 10th Street and
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
To order tickets, call 202-357-3030
and mention program code: 1L0-016
Preferred rate for readers of
EverestNews.com: $12
This is $3 off the general
admission price.
Bring Your Questions !
- Everest Spring 2000 has Started:
www.everestcleanup.com 2000 Everest
Environmental
A team of eight climbers and over
20 Sherpas will climb to Camp 4 on Everest this spring to attempt
to bring down hundreds of discarded oxygen bottles and tons of trash left by other
climbers in the past. The climbers will also attempt to summit Everest.
Members include Robert Chang,
Expedition leader Robert Hoffman of Belmont, CA, (his fourth expedition to Everest),
Deputy Expedition leader is Robert Boice of San Francisco. The expedition trek leader is
Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of one of the first Everest summiteers, Tenzing Norgay. In
addition, Sherman Bull, 62, of Stamford, CT, is a physician member.
The lead Sherpa is Apa Sherpa.
Several readers continue to ask how
they can help clean-up Everest... You can contact this Expedition from their web site:
www.everestcleanup.com 2000 Everest
Environmental
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