SummitClimb Mt. Everest 2005 Tibet: Ryan Waters reporting in from Everest 5/08/2005

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Update: This is Ryan Waters calling for the SummitClimb North Ridge Everest Expedition, the Tibetan side, checking in after a few days.  I'm at Base Camp right now, just returned with a couple other our staff from a town called Shigar, where we spent one night and did a re-supply for some new food at Base Camp.  We all had a good rest there.  The rest of our members are all up today to take a ride in the 4 wheel drive land cruisers down to Shirgar.  They plan on spending three days in Shigar at the lower elevation resting, eating good food.  We're looking forward to have everyone get a mental break from Base Camp and the higher camps. 

The rest of us are back here at Base, enjoying a beautiful day.  It's about 75-80 degrees Fahrenheit at Base Camp today.  We're starting to look at weather reports to see what's going on.  There's a mean game of horseshoes going on about a 100 yards from me, the English versus the Indian team.  So that's pretty exciting, a big crowd is gathering there.  Pretty fun, and also some good photo opportunities there.

Things are good at base camp, everyone is healthy.  We have had one member of our team that went ahead and left the expedition due to his personal time constraints.  Rikard Mansson went ahead and left towards Hong Kong where he lives.  He had a combination of a pre-existing stomach condition that was aggravated by all this high altitude, and also his personal time schedule was coming to a close.   So he went ahead and took off back to Hong Kong. So we wish Rikard the best of luck and hope he makes it home safely. Everyone's resting so we'll get back in touch as soon as we have news of going back towards our chance hopefully for a summit push within little over a week.  Ok, thank you for everything.  Talk too you later, goodbye.

Below is an updated list of our Tibetan staff: Special thanks to the Tibet

Guide School:

Tibetan Climbers:

Pasang

Penba

Wangdu

Luda

Tibetan Kitchen Staff:

Sange

Pubu Tseren

Danzeng Tsewang

Chamba

Below is our expedition list.

Dispatches

Steve Poulsen, Climber, USA

Bob Guthrie, Climber, USA

Neal Jing, Climber, USA

Fredrick Strang, Climber, Sweden

Magnus Flock, Climber, Sweden

Rikard Mansson, Climber, Sweden

Ryan Waters, Expedition Leader, USA

Jangbu Sherpa, Climbing Sirdar

Dawa Sherpa

Pema Rinji Sherpa

Ang Babu Sherpa

Furtenji Sherpa

Kipa Sherpa, Head Cook

3 Tibetan Climbers

1 Tibetan Cook

2 Tibetan cookboys

(we will meet our Tibetan Staff in Tingri)

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