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 Mt. Everest 2005: Dirk Stephan and Keith Woodhouse: Initial euphoria on return to BC | |||||||
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| Update: Initial euphoria on return to BC has largely disappeared with the latest weather forecast. Earliest ascent looks like around 13th but not for us. I'm a bit worried about my acclimatisation and fitness decaying over this time and so I may go back up to C2 in a few days and await developments there. Unless I can convince Serge to do the same I will be without comms, so no updates I'm afraid Temp in basecamp has changed. It is now dramatically warmer which makes it much more pleasant but truth is I just want to get this done now and go home!! So for a time it's going to get hard again!! They say a week is a long time in politics well I can tell you its longer here in the mountains. Its very easy (as I have today) to allow myself to get everything out of proportion. The next few weeks will pass, initially I suspect very slowly, but then at F1 speed as we finally make our attempt to summit. Within a month I'll be home and this will all just seem like a distant memory so onward and upward it is!! [Editorial Note: Dirk Stephan and Keith Woodhouse are on an Asian Trekking permit for independent climbers.]
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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