Mt. Everest 2005: Mountain Madness Expedition: Camp 3 Bound!

Update: Camp 3 Bound!

Base camp life is treating us all well.  We are busy taking showers, reading, watching movies, socializing with other expeditions, eating good food and sleeping.  Life is good!!  Yesterday our trekking team, Danika, Phil, Wynn, Eric, and Jerry left for Pheriche.

Tomorrow, May 10th, our climbing team Eric, Dean, Ray, Willie and I leave for camp 2.  The following day, May 11th, we head for camp 3 to spend the night.  By May 13th we plan to be back at base camp to rest for our summit attempt. 

We have a very strong and experienced Sherpa team, Lhakpa, Pasang, Mingma, Undi, and Lhama Jungbu.  Our Sherpas carried a load to camp 3 today and they are staying at camp 2 tonight.  Tomorrow they will climb to the south col to stock camp 4 and then return to camp 2 and the following day will climb with us to camp 3!

We are constantly working with other commercial expeditions and comparing various weather reports, so we can plan for a safe summit day.   

Cheers, Christine

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