

Update: Tashi ring called from Base camp on May 3rd and May
4th. He came down from ABC to BC and met all the friends from Lhasa,
Cheula, Nyima la, Tsomola, Tenzing yugel, and Tsedue. they had good time at
the BC. Today he is going back to ABC. He is going to attempt in this
coming two weeks as says.
Update 4/24/2007: Tashi called, they are moving up to climb up
to camp 1 and 2 today above 7000 meters...
Dispatches
Background: Tashi Tenzing is returning to
Everest!
Good to hear from you . All is well - Tashi Tenzing
expeditions party is 2 person only - Ms Klara Polackova - she is climbing with
me or I am guiding her this time to fulfil her dreams of Everest - She climbed
Cho Oyu with me last year and she is ready to hit Everest . I am going for the
last time to climb my beloved Chomolungma from the Tibet side and its
important to me as my family and my sherpa community started their climbing
career and today there the sherpas are the masters of Everest . And not the
least this climb is dedicated to the Nepalese people that we have peace and
stability and may the people of nepal enjoy the prosperity and good future in
the new govt. After so many years of un rest.
We leave for Lhasa tomorrow and will be spending about 6
days to acclimatised and then will be in base camp around 14 April and will
start climbing from ABC about the 26 of April .
Will keep up posted from Lhasa. Tashi
Tashi was born in Darjeeling, India on 30 November, 1965 -
youngest son of Pem Pem who is Tenzing Norgay's eldest daughter. Tenzing, with
Sir Edmund Hillary, made the first ascent of Everest on 29th May 1953. Tashi's
mother is also a climber. She was a member of the 1959 International Women's
Expedition to Cho Oyu, in Nepal - the 7th highest mountain in the world - an
expedition which ended tragically in the death of two climbers.
   
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