SummitClimb Mt. Everest 2005 Tibet: The Summit push is on!

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Update: Hello from the SummitClimb Mount Everest North Ridge Expedition from Tibet. This is Ryan calling, May 17.  As you can imagine, weather and summit dates are the hot topic here at ABC.  All our members are here, there are lots of rumors going around-who's weather report is good, who's is not-when are people going?  It's a big crap shoot, we're hearing various reports.  Here's the latest from our team.  As of tomorrow, the SummitClimb team is going to start the summit push.   We're going to try to summit on the 21st of May.

That's going according to two weather reports that we've combined and feel pretty confident about.  I feel like over all so far this year the weather has been much more challenging as far as trying to pick a summit date-no big windows showing up, just spotty dates here and there.   We have very strong winds still here at ABC, and we're looking for the 21st.

The team will be members Neal, Fredrick, Magnus and Bob going for the summit.  Going with them we have an extremely high staff ratio.  We have Jangbu Sherpa, Pemba Sherpa, Furtenji Sherpa,  Dawa Sherpa, and Pasang Tsering, as well myself, Ryan, Expedition Leader.  We also have support from Penba,  Wangdu and Luda, our Tibetan climbers.  That gives us up to nine staff to four member ratio.  We feel very confident that we can do it safely.  We're also prepared to fix rope above the highest point, as we hear the ropes are only so high right now.  That's all we have right here, and we're definitely excited about tomorrow getting going towards the mountain. It's probably going to be challenging weather getting up to our high camp at eight three but we're going to try to push up there.  We'll keep you updated on the days to come and stay tuned, wish us luck and hope to see everyone soon.  Goodbye.

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

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

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