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 Mt. Everest 2005: Dirk Stephan and Keith Woodhouse: Feeling quite positive today | |||||||
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| Update 4/29/2005: Feeling quite positive today. Everyone looking forward to 1st May and the psychological impact that will have. My plan is as follows; BC till Monday Drop down to Dingboche on Monday and stay 3 nights in a lodge. Thursday back up to Deboche Friday 6th back at BC. BC to summit needs 5 days so Naga will call us back early if 10th is a likely date. If the weather is not ready we will wait at BC or in my case maybe ABC for weather window. I think time will pass faster and eventually at lightning speed as we approach our summit bid. Originally I was not convinced about the benefit of going down but now I'm more sure. It will allow me to exercise fairly hard in an environment which will support body building not decline, it will pass time for sure and it will allow the repair of all of those minor ailments like the Khumbu Cough, split fingers ends and chapped lips which simply don't heal at BC altitude. Also our Liaison officer has
turned up!! This is like having a spy in the camp and we are having to be very
careful with the use of the phone. Dirk kindly left me his radio so I can just
about get BBC world service on SW. See we are having a General Election next
week! Last night we had chicken, unbelievable it was a real one because I
recognized the leg bit. Amazing how quickly things that you take for granted
have new values in this environment! Hopefully I will be able to get some
better and more interesting food in Dingboche. Food at ABC was not too bad
given the circumstances so maybe things will improve overall and I will start
to look forward to meal times!!
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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