SKi8000 expedition 2004 Dispatch Index

Update 3/8/2004: We have now left Kathmandu, which is a lovely city, but very dirty so we were happy to leave by bus on Saturday morning. An 8 hour drive to the Langtang region. Our GPS tells us in those 8 hours we only got 35 km away from Kathmandu. But fair enough, we are in the mountains and ready to start the acclimatization process.....

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Update3: After finishing our trek in Langtang we headed back to Kathmandu. There we made our final preparations for our departure to Cho Oyu base camp.

Update4: After a good night sleep in a colorful Tingri we only needed a two hour drive to Old Chinese Base Camp 4900 m. From here our transportation will be on foot!

Update 5: We are now in Intermediate Camp at 5350 m. We are having 2 problems: non-cooperating yaks and mountain sickness. It is unclear when we will reach basecamp (about 4 hours climbing from here).

Update 6: We have finally arrived in Cho Oyu basecamp! We are happy to be here, although part of our equipment is still in Old Chinese Basecamp (2 days walk from here). We partly solved the yak issue. We hope to welcome the last yak shift tomorrow (Thursday).

 

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