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Daily News: 11/10/99 Report
Q&A Questions
for Appa Sherpa. The great climber who has reached the Summit of Everest 10 times. Submit
to everestnews2004@adelphia.net
EverestNews.com interviewed Appa
Sherpa. Part 1:
Q.) After 10 summits of Everest, how
many more times do you want to Summit Everest ?
A.) 4 more times.
Q.) Compare Summiting the
North Side of Everest with the South Side.
A.) South Side much more technical.
North side much longer climb from high camp. They are different.
Q.) Who do you think were the best
non-Sherpa climbers you have climbed with?
A.) Rob Hall..... Pete Athens,
Anatoli, Todd Burleson.
Q.) How would you compare these
climbers to the best Sherpa climbers?
A.) Sherpa are stronger. Well they
always go farther. Sherpa take the ropes, fix the ropes
Q.) Appa is this a job for you or an
adventure?
A.) My job.
Q.) Do you get any adventure from it?
A.) Only Work.
Q.) Do you have children? How
old are they...
A.) 4, ages 14, 10, 8, 5. Two boys ,
two daughters.
Q.) Would you want them to be Everest
climbers.
A.) No. I want them to get an
education.
Q.) When you say NO, why?
A.) Because of the danger.
Q.) If you do not fix the ropes in
Spring of 1998 on Everest South Side, does anyone summit the South side that year?
A.) NO.
If I don't fix the ropes they all turn
around like the around 60 climbers before that attempted that year....had to turn around.
Appa Sherpa ten time Everest Summiter
!
More to come from this great climber.
One who has shown the world that he is one of the best ever.
The story of Fran and
Sergi will began again soon here. Several have requested where EverestNews.com is
going, below is an outline, on our latest plan on how to explain what is believed to have
happened. Please give us your feedback, but understand we cannot answer all the e-mail. everestnews2004@adelphia.net
Next
Their Summit Day, May 1998.
The initial reports/Something is wrong ???
What ? You reached the Summit when ??? Prove it !!!
What the Americans were told happened by
whom.
The story the Sherpas confirmed happened
(which EverestNews.com first learned several months later than the events.).
What is believed to have happened based
on the evidence, the day after her summit, then the following day...
Rescues ? What was heard on the radios.
Sergi... and his plan ?? and what might had
he been doing...
Optional: The Questions... there are many.
Optional: Why EverestNews.com waited... ???
(the above should give You some ideas....)
EverestNews.com is also looking for climbers from
Turkey. If you are from Turkey or have contacts we could use please let us know... everestnews2004@adelphia.net
Below is the best information we currently
have on the following mountains:
Lhotse, One Expedition (Korean), no Summits
Annapurna , No Summits
Kangchenjunga, 2 deaths, No Summits
Everest, No Deaths, No Summits
K2, One death, No Summits
Manaslu, 4 expeditions, No Summits
To Be continued...
EverestNews.com is also looking for climbers from
Turkey. If you are from Turkey or have contacts we could use please let us know... everestnews2004@adelphia.net
Coming Soon a Q&A with Graham
Hoyland, as he answers your Mallory Questions and others... On EverestNews.com You ask
the Questions. Submit to Graham@everestnews.com
Thank you very much for your e mail.
Through the hard work and your cooperation, now the rescue work
finished successfully. All the members arrive the Karda before yesterday. The first
group left China two days ago. The second group left yesterday. Some members are in Karda.
They rest today and will leave China tomorrow. Please let me know your and Linda's
background. Then in the future we can get in touch with each other. Today our last group
with the equipment will arrive in Karda two hours later. All the team members are well. The sick person can walk. He left Karda yesterday. Best regards
Ying Daoshui CMA
Daily News: 11/6/99 Report
Everest
S.O.S. Continued from below NEWSFLASHES
EverestNews.com has not received additional information
since the last post from the CMA.
Hopefully, additional News will be received in the next 24
hours...
Goran Kropp Answers Q&A Part 3:
Questions from the readers as usual...
Q.) Question for Goran: You mentioned visiting a
school that you started in 1997 as one of the reasons you went back to Everest. Can
you tell us more about that school? Best Regards. Lisa
A.) The school is in Tapting, called Wongchu Biswra
school, soon
it will be changed to include my name also. It has space for 96 pupils, now we are
also building a hospital there. You can see picture on my homepage under "gamla
nyheter"
Q.) Dear Goran: Have just finished reading your
book on your amazing '96 Adventure. I am not a climber but am thoroughly fascinated
by your courage and drive. My question is in regards to all the bodies on Everest.
Do you feel that besides efforts to clean up the mountain of all the trash, some
kind of international effort should be made to give all these poor souls who have
died on the mountain a burial of some sort. It must be disconcerting at the
very least to have to step over a former comrade on the way up or down the mountain. I am
amazed that all the Sherpas are still willing to climb up and down to the high camps with
all the dead they must pass along the way., Sincerely Annalisa Shield from Virginia
A.) No it will put the rescue climbers in great
danger, its not so easy as it may seem to carry somebody down from Everest. What I have
heard a strong groups of Sherpas, carried down a victim from south
summit and almost all got severe frostbite and its not worth that.
Q.) On Everest, are any of the climbers as strong
as Babu ?
A.) Reinhold Messner is the strongest ever.
Q.) Would you rate Babu night on the summit as the highest achievement in history? Just
think if a western climber would have done it.
A.) What I have heard when I was down on
Everest he had help from other Sherpas carrying up gear (Oxygen, Tent, sleeping
bag etc) And then I admire R. Messner's ascent more (78/81)
Q.) What do you think about the Mallory photos been sold that shows Mallory as a
rotten body?
A.) I don't know, but it feels a little bit like
archeology, making up the Everest history and that's OK.
Q.) Do you think Mallory was respected in death ?
A.) Yes, I was at NOVA press conference in
Kathmandu and I thought that they had a great respect in that moment they found him and
onwards.
Best wishes Goran
If you have more Questions for Goran. He will be in
the US/Canada awhile longer, so we might be able to get more answers for you...submit to goran@everestnews.com
To the person who sent in the question on ordering
the video, please e-mail us again...
Coming Soon a Q&A with Graham Hoyland, as he answers your Mallory Questions and others... On
EverestNews.com You ask the Questions. Submit to Graham@everestnews.com
Coming soon to EverestNews.com, a brief Summary of
Autumn 8000 meter peak Summits mountain by mountain
If you have more Questions for
Goran. He will be in the US/Canada awhile longer, so we might be able to get more answers
for you...submit to goran@everestnews.com
Q.) What does Goran think of
commercial guided expeditions on Everest?
A.) I think that they have to pick
there clients more careful, then its OK
Q.) Have you yourself put up a limit
on how many times you will pass above 8000 meters without bottled oxygen?
A.) No, but I thinks its enough now,
maybe one time more, we'll see... I'm thinking about the possible risks with braincapasity
Q.) Do you think the American climbs of these 8000 meter peaks are boring ?
With the exception of Alex Lowe this summer (which was not a 8000 meter peak), most of
these summits by Americans are just the plain old routes in Spring conditions. Only the
east Europeans and a few only seem to go for it . Do you agree ?
A.) No I think the well known
Americans are very strong and skilled Breashears, Lowe, Viesturs etc. You have done new
routes on many 8000 meters peaks. On big walls I think Americans is NO 1.
Goran
If you have more Questions for
Goran. He will be in the US/Canada awhile longer, so we might be able to get more answers
for you...submit to goran@everestnews.com
On Saturday October 30th two climbers from the
Adventure Consultants Ama Dablam 1999 Expedition reached the summit of the 6828m
peak in Nepal. The soaring peak, known as the 'jewel of the Khumbu' is the backdrop to the famous
Thyangboche Monastery in the Khumbu Valley.
Mark Morrison (23) of Wanaka, New Zealand reached the summit via the south west
ridge with the expedition's head Sherpa guide Ang Dorje Sherpa (35) from Nepal.
Expedition leader David Hiddleston (30) of Wanaka, New Zealand, turned back on
the summit day at 6250m to accompany Christine Jacques (25) of Christchurch, New
Zealand, down to lower altitudes. She was suffering from a bout of altitude
sickness and improved after descending. Their summit day climb started at 4.30am
from Camp II at 6000m on what David described as 'a beautiful moonlit morning'.
The top was reached at 10.00am by Mark and Ang Dorje in clear conditions with a
light wind. All the group retreated back to Camp II after the climb and arrived
back down at Base Camp (4600m) yesterday.
Lee Heah (44) of Auckland, New Zealand did not make the summit climb as she had
left the expedition earlier in the month. The team had encountered
really deep snow upon first arriving at Base Camp on October 18th, but
conditions had steadily improved and allowed a few other groups to reach the
summit before the Adventure Consultants attempt.
All the expedition team members are now trekking back to Lukla, from where they
will fly to Kathmandu and then the Kiwis will head home to New Zealand
by November 11th.
Ten-time Everest Summiter announces his retirement, more information...
Ang Rita Sherpa, a veteran mountaineer also known as " The Snow
Leopard" has now decided to retire from climbing mountains. After the treatment of
"chest infection" at the Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu he said " Since all
my relatives and the government officials has suggested me not to climb anymore and also I
am sick and tired - getting old, I have decided to retire from climbing."
He had been in bed for two and half months and
during that time he couldn't eat his meals due to lack of appetite. Earlier he was being
treated at the Khunde Hospital at his village town hospital, but as his condition didn't
improve he was choppered out to Kathmandu and admitted to Tribhuwan University Teaching
Hospital on 10th of Oct. He also had suspected cirrhosis symptoms. He was discharged from
the hospital on 24th of October.
Ang Rita, 55, had summited Mt. Everest 10 times
without oxygen, the last one via North Ridge in Tibet in 1997 and the title "Snow
Leopard " was honored to him for this unrivaled achievement.
Today when
11 members start to Karta (8:30AM) after 3 hours 12:00 PM our
team meet Mr. Bingcho (TMA Climber) with 30 porters from Karta they took
9days from Karta.
Our team tomorrow
(11/1/99) will going down to Karta
thank
you"
Oct 31,1999
Everest Expedition
team leader Heo Youngho
Daily News: 11/1/99 Report
Ginette Harrison's pictures that she sent EverestNews.com
before her expedition to Dhaulagiri.
Pictures
from her successful Spring Expedition to Makalu
(8463m), where Ginette became the first British female to Summit
Makalu. The pictures are Ginette at Camp 2; Ginette and Hamish climbing the final summit
ridge; Gary on the fixed rope en route to Camp3. All are from the Harrison/Pfisterer
collection.
Ginette lived in America with her husband Gary Pfisterer.
