Mt. Everest 2005: Up for our summit shot: Four Friends To Climb Everest For A Cure

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Update: May 25: Our team is busy packing.  The last 5 days have been full of weather reports and team interactions that belie upon comparing what is acceptable for our team versus what's acceptable for others in terms of cold temperatures and high winds.  Finally, we feel that the shot we will get has come, and we are planning to head up on the 26th of May to Camp 2 to start our summit attempt.

We will rest on the 27th - and if the winds and forecasts hold true, will head to Camp 3 on the 28th, Camp 4 on the 29th, start our summit attempt that evening and hopefully summit on the 30th of May.  We do have the supplies at Camp 2 to hold out for a few days if the better weather does not bear fruit on the 29th-30th.

My teammates and I are at least finally getting to relieve some of the pressure that has built up over the last month, and at least, we see some reasonable conclusion to our climb and expedition.

Our hopes were raised by better forecasts, and our BC Manager had been telling us all week long that it was going to improve - its always good to have a great cheerleader here in camp, and hopefully we will get our good window - or acceptable window for our team.

Other teams have been heading up today as well as pretty much almost all other teams are  heading up in the next few days to give it a go.  The rope fixing operation set up by the "commission" in BC in which our BC Manager had a big hand in is in place and finalizing the placement of gear, materiel and Sherpa power.

It will be a unique occurrence to be here at least on the mountain for the annual anniversary of the first summit (May 29, 1953).  Chuck, Dan, John and I are healthy and ready to go.  Paula has assumed "mission control" status and will monitor our progress as we move up the mountain.

Rob Chang Everest Climber, author and motivational speaker. To book Rob e-mail

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