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 Mt. Everest 2005: Dirk Stephan and Keith Woodhouse: Feeling pretty down | |||||||||||
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Feeling pretty down!! Spoke to Dirk and he's had enough! All sorts of mixed emotions from me, some selfish, some wishing I'd seen the signs earlier. I should be elated I'm at C3, got here exhausted in 5 hours, but I'm not! I'm going to really miss Dirk's down to earth attitude and humour. Weather here is mixed with occasional snow showers. We have three tents literally hewn out from the Lhotse face. The climb up to here was much harder than I expected and frankly much more exposed and technical than I had thought. Its basically blue ice all the way. Very difficult to get an ice axe in, as it just splinters and because we are one of the first groups up here, no obvious foot holds. Therefore much of the climb was on front points which is Very tiring. I expect it will improve over time! According to the GPS we are at 7230m a new record for me. Only Serge, me and Godmilla are sleeping here. Klaus and Manuel have opted to go back to C2. Staying over at C3 is only recommended once, prior to the summit attempt. Please note due to battery power I will not be picking up emails until I'm back in BC on the 28th.
Background Dirk Stephan and Keith Woodhouse, a small German/English team of two will attempt Everest in Spring of 2005 via the normal southeast ridge route. Keith is in his fifties, Dirk 39. "Both of us have extensive mountaineering experience, I am in a lifetime project of the seven summits, already started with Kilimanjaro, 20 years ago. My expeditions have been self organized whenever possible. I soloed Aconcagua and Elbrus - if you can call it this way on this beaten tracks. Everest and Carstensz are still missing. Keith and me climbed Denali together the year before. Keith works for British Telecom as Manager Global Solutions. I am Pilot for a German Charter Company. My aim is to support a cancer charity. This has a personal background, as my wife has cancer herself and I am greatly involved in researching things and supporting people with the same fate. Everest is a good opportunity to raise funds things like this. Every support is welcome!"
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