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  Mt. Everest 2007: SummitClimb Tibet Everest 2007:  Two new reports


Two new reports: Hey this is Matt Vulk with SummitClimb on the North side of Everest. Tunc, Mustafa, Maya, Arnold and myself are back in Base Camp after a crazy windy night on the Col. Most of the night we spent trying to fend off tiny airborne ice particles, listening to the tent fabric snapping and flapping, and keeping toes warm. Next morning we were blessed with a fantastic sight. The contrast of color and light was stunning. 70 to 80 tents mostly yellow and orange were battered by the high winds. One tent danced like a spinning top, all anchors pulled except one, ready to take flight. With the backdrop of pure white snow and the upper ramparts of Everest, the scene took on a surreal, dream-like panorama.

Back at Base Camp, the whole team gathers strength for a much awaited and much discussed summit push. Over and out from Base Camp on the North side of Everest, God Bless… and

Correspondent Kevin Adams. SummitClimb Everest North Expedition. Dispatch as follows. Now that we have all gone from the North Col and are enjoying the relative thick air of Base Camp, I thought a few words on the genuine effects of altitude may be appropriate. Firstly, don’t expect to get a good night’s sleep. It’s not just the wind that’s blowing strong against the tent, or the cold shower of ice crystals that rain down on you inside the tent, or having to spin around in your bag every 20 minutes because part or parts of you have gone numb, or even the minus 20 degree Celsius temperature. It’s simply not having enough oxygen to breathe. So you wake up feeling as though you haven’t slept and you start up the ridge for greater acclimatization. It’s easy at first, ten paces later you’re hunched over your ice ax, gasping for breath. As you get higher, you start counting steps, 30 and a rest. Feeling sick, and beyond that it’s three breaths for every step. After four hours you’ve gained four hundred meters of altitude. It feels like you’ve been walking for 12 hours. Then turning around, your legs are like lead. Back at the tent you lay on your back, snow in your face, too tired to care. But you know you love it. Dispatch ends.

 

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