Mt. Everest 2005: Gavin Bate: Gavin is back!

File photo Everest on a better day ©EverestNews.com

Gavin's dispatches, when he was on Everest before, was voted the best dispatches of the season by you, our readers of EverestNews.com. For those of you who are new, now you know why.

After a good few days R&R at Deboche - a Nepalese village some hours trek down from Base Camp - Gavin is now back at Gorak Shep. The weather is good where he is, and - as always - he is feeling good. No summits yet apparently ... the weather up top hasn't been so great. Gav is now waiting for some of the big teams to go for the top so he can follow in their footsteps. As he won't have oxygen he will be going much slower and doesn't want to hold people up at crowded times. He expects to start heading up the hill in the next few days or so ...

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