Mt. Everest 2005 Leipziger: Tomorrow we will start for the summit push!

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Mt. Everest 2005 Leipziger: Tomorrow we will start for the summit push!

There will be no optimal window this season! Therefore, it is our last and only chance and we hope for less wind than predicted. The first teams should be on the summit already, but we still not have any information from there at the BC. The weather is bad today, the summit of the Everest is obscured by clouds. I spent the day at the Pumo Ri and watched the spectacle from there.

The information that we will start tomorrow was a surprise for me because I have been out of the base camp for the whole day. Yesterday, we still intended to start on the 20th, but Thomas and Thorsten have got new information from other teams. Therefore, I have to pack my backpack and eat and drink as much as I can. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

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Background

A German team will attempt the South side of Everest (Nepal). The final team: Olaf Rieck, Thomas T�rpe, Lakpa Gelbu Sherpa, Jana Odrich.

all members are Germans except Lakpa Gelbu Sherpa (Nepalese)

all ascends listed below were without oxygen

Thomas T�rpe: born 1961

1994 Cho Oyu (8201 m)

1996 Everest until 8400 m

1999 Cho Oyu (8201 m)

2000 Makalu (8463 m)

2001 Everest until 8700 m

2002 Cho Oyu (8201 m)

2003 Gasherbrum II (8035 m)

J�rg Stingl: born 1961

1996 Mt. Everest until 8500 m

1997 Cho Oyu until 7800 m

1998 Makalu until 8250 m

1999 Manaslu (8163 m)

2001 Mt. Everest (8850 m)

2004 Nanga Parbat (8125 m)

Lakpa Gelbu Sherpa: born 1977

1996 Cho Oyu (8201m)

2000 Everest North (8850 m)

2001 Dhaulagiri (8167 m)

2003 Lhotse (8516 m)

2003 Everest South (8850 m)

Olaf Rieck: born 1964

1999 Cho Oyu (8201 m)

Cho Polu (6735 m, first ascend)

2001 Gasherbrum II (8035 m)

Hidden Peak until 6500 m

2002 Num Ri (6677 m, first ascend)

Olaf Zill: born 1966

2000 Makalu (8463 m)

2001 Mt. Everest until 8000 m

2002 Dhaulagiri (8167 m)

2003 Cho Oyu (8201 m)

Jana Odrich: born 1974

Island Peak (Imja Tse) 6189 m

Kilimanjaro 5 895 m

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