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 Mt. Everest 2005: Martin Minarik: Chess anyone? | |||||
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Update May 26th: Martin called last night, he plans to leave ABC on the 30th or 31st; as it seems several others will do as well. He says he is doing well, playing lots of chess with the Indian Army. Update May 16th: Martin left advanced basecamp for 48 hours to try for summit, I am not sure how far he got before he turned back and returned to advance basecamp. He said he has never been so cold. He will wait and rest a few more days. He says that there are a bunch of different forecasts.... He says he is well. Update: So what do you do after you just did a TRUE SOLO of a 8000 meter peak? Not a SOLO where others put in the ropes and hauled your gear up, but a TRUE SOLO where you went to the mountain yourself, with no one else there and climbed the mountain by yourself. Broke your own trail, and hauled your own gear, all alone. Martin on Cho Oyu, Messner on Everest and Jean-Christophe Lafaille on Shishapangma are the only 3 TRUE SOLO climbs of 8000 meter peaks for the Nepal peaks using that definition. We need to check the Pakistan peaks. Anyway, He plans to go up tomorrow or next day. Maybe he could ... Well we will see ... Martin made the first 8000 meter summit of the season, and it was a REAL SOLO: The report!
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