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 Mt. Everest 2005: Dirk Stephan and Keith Woodhouse: I leave tomorrow !! Wish me luck and send me your positive vibes.. | ||||||||||
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| Update: Woke throughout the night with a severe cough! Not sure if it's the renowned Khumbu cough or some viral or bacterial thing picked up from Luda or Serge! Anyway timing is not great. Good news is that Klaus is on hand to dish out some pills to bring it under control. It's not uncommon for climbers to break ribs with the Khumbu cough! Came back pretty steady in just under 3 hours from Lobuche, my chest was a bit tight but no real breathing problems. Final countdown has begun and I have decided to leave for C2 tomorrow, Tuesday, so that I can rest a day after the rigours of the 6 hour trek up through the ice fall past C1 to ABC. It will also give me time to have a final sort out of my gear. I have just read the 'Death Zone' and picked up a few more tips that are worth picking up on like a harness in your back pack to keep the oxygen bottle upright and preventing the tube kinking which I can easily fashion from some climbing slings! So after all this time it looks like we have a game on. Walking up here today from Lobuche the task looks impossible, but by the time I'd broken it down into stages again and compared my performance to C3 I was feeling more positive! I'll go onto oxygen at C3 and endeavour to keep myself in the best possible shape for the final push from C4. One advantage of using the summit oxygen is that it gives me much more available oxygen in relative terms and with it more flexibility in terms of when I use it and at what flow rates. Just hope the darn thing works!! I 'm not sure what access to a phone I'll have or even whether it will work at C4 so updates may be intermittent! If you do believe in the power of prayer, rosary beads or any other positive influence the next 6 days would be a great time to practice it please!!!
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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