Mt. Everest 2005: Alpine Ascents Everest 2005 Jose reporting from Pheriche

Update: Pheriche
     Today we awoke to sunny skies and a rest day!! Well, not really because we hiked up to 15,500ft to continue with our acclimatization. Some of us stayed down at the tea house, enjoying the sun room and the local hospitality. Pheriche is a small village with many rock walls and a small smattering of tea houses along the main route. There is a high altitude medical clinic here in Pheriche and luckily no one has had to take advantage of it. On the hike, we got great views of Island Peak (20,300 feet or something), and Makalu, which is the fifth highest mountain in the world. Willie reminded us all about the use of one walking pole vs. two when hiking. He demonstrated how to move down the mountain and then took off and we all ran down, only to have Todd waiting for us at the bottom and scolding us for running in such altitude!

We’ll let Willie and Todd duke it out…There is only one hot shower and because there are 31 of us, the list to get a hot shower is very long. Patience is necessary! The shower consists of a metal pan of hot water from the kitchen poured into a large plastic bucket and dribbled down over the user, in 28 degree weather.
We all had lunch together in our tea house called Himalayan Hotel owned by a very friendly and helpful sherpani named Ang Kandi. Everybody is looking forward to a restful afternoon and getting ready to move up to Lobuche which is closer to Everest base camp.

Best to you all,
Jose Luis.

Dispatches

Vern Tejas, Willi Prittie, Dave Morton, Jose Luis Peralvo, and Lakpa Rita Sherpa will lead the Alpine Ascent team on Everest this Spring. They will attempt the standard South East ridge route.

GUIDE STAFF (BIOS)
Lakpa Rita Sherpa Senior Guide & Sirdar	Vern Tejas Senior Guide	Willi Prittie Senior Guide
Dave Morton Senior Guide	Jose Luis Peralvo Senior Guide	Ellie Henke Base Camp Manager
CLIMBERS
Nigel Clark	Esther Colwill	Ron Farb
Kevin Grant	Cathy Groninger	Kent Groninger
Mostafa Mahmoud	Jeanne Stawiecki	Dianette Strange-Wells
Tony Van Marken	David Liano	Danielle Fisher

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