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On 6 April, Ron, Aldas and I hiked halfway up the moraine towards Interim Camp, reaching 18,000 feet. It felt pretty good despite having only reached Base Camp yesterday. Our other climbers will go on similar acclimatization hikes in the next several days. At BC, we have a large communal mess tent big enough for all 21 climbers. We have a wide range of backgrounds on our team. Four are planning climbs nearby, but not necessarily summit Everest. We are aged between 31 to 52 and have been climbing seriously for as many as 17 years or only seven months. One of our climbers has summited all 54 peaks over 14,000 feet in Colorado. Another guest has summited over 60 mountains including seven summits of Denali. Three of our climbers have already summated Everest from the South. Our two Turkish climbers helped guide on Mt. Ararat and are also mountain rescue experts. We have one doctor who has been selflessly looking out for our climbers who occasionally feel ill. We also have a couple of military and ex-military climbers. On the 7th we had our Puja, an hour-long Tibetan Buddhist ceremony praying for the safety and success of our team. Today on the 8th we have been assembling and packing our gear for tomorrow’s seven miles of climb up to Interim Camp at 19,000 feet. After two nights there we will head up another seven miles to Advanced Base Camp at 21,000 feet. Our climbing Sherpas have already established our camp at ABC and have dropped off our tents and camp supplies at the North Col. I’ve been happy to see many of the same great cooking staff we had for our Fall 2006 Cho Oyu Expedition. We’ll try to call from ABC sometime over the next couple of days. Thanks for your prayers and support.
Summitclimb Everest North Tibet 2007
Hello everyone! Thank you for following our expedition. This is Ben Stuckey reporting for the Summitclimb Everest North 2007 team. We are currently in Nyalam, Tibet situated at the base of the Tibetan Plateau at 12,100'or 3800m. Since our last report the entire Everest North team has made our way from Kathmandu and we have entered Tibet/China. The border crossing from Nepal into Tibet/China went very well and there were no major problems. Some of our members were still missing baggage that never arrived in Kathmandu. The great news is that all missing luggage and climbing gear has made it safely to us here in Nyalam.
Today was a rest and acclimitization day so myself and a few other members went for a stroll up to 14,300'or 4400m where we caught our first glimpse of Shishapangma the 14th highest peak in the world standing just over 8000 meters high. The plan for the next few days is for the team to travel across the Tibetan Plateau to the small town of Tingri located at 14,100'or 4200m. We will spend 2 days there so as to allow our bodies to adapt to the increasingly thin air. From there we will finish the final portion of the 1st stage of our journey to climb Mount Everest. We will slowly make our way to basecamp located at 17300'or 5200m. We will send our next dispatch from there in 3 days time. Every team member is doing well, feeling great and having fun. Thank you for following our climb to the top of the world.
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