SummitClimb Mt. Everest 2005 Tibet: Ryan Waters reporting in from Everest 5/12/2005

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Update: This is Ryan Waters checking in for the SummitClimb Everest North Ridge Expedition from Tibet, May 12, calling from Base Camp.  We're having nice weather today.  All of our members just arrived back to Base Camp yesterday from a short rest down in Shigar.  Everyone arrived yesterday healthy.  We sent the rest of our staff up to ABC yesterday where they will be getting things ready for our upcoming summit push.  They're doing final preparations to our high camps, carrying oxygen and all that good stuff.

Today we have three members leaving Base Camp to start towards ABC deciding to go to the Intermediate Base Camp today.  They are Neal, Magnus and Fredrick.  Tomorrow, I will be going as well as Bob towards Intermediate Camp.  And then probably the 14th, our last member Steve will be leaving for Intermediate Camp.  So we're staggering the team starting to go towards ABC in preparation for our summit push.  Which we're glad to announce, since we've got weather reports now coming in and it sounds like there's going to be some hopefully stable weather coming sometime around the 17th and thereafter.  So as of right now our tentative schedule which could always change depending on the weather..{transcription ends mid-sentence}.

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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