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EVEREST TODAY

OFFICIAL START DATE: March 30, 2010' in Kathmandu

INTRODUCTION - 2010' Team List and Who the heck are these people?

We were surprised when this years Everest expedition sold out 8 months in advance. We must be doing something right!

New this year is changes in the way Everest is being prepared for safe climbing. Russell Brice initiated talks among the lead commercial operators to work together as a unit in better preparing the mountain as a whole. Emails went back and forth for several months and a plan was agreed on. Eric Simonson negotiated a supply of good quality rope in the US for the purpose and we all contributed towards the purchase and cargo expenses to get it up to BC. When the teams all gather at base camp further discussions will take place on fixing the route as a whole.

We invite you to once again follow us with through our daily updates.

March 26, 2010: (22:00hrs Nepal Time) CRAZY BUSY: Kathmandu is a buzz with climbers and trekkers now arriving for the 2010 Everest climbing season. Our hotel is turning people away in crowds trying to to find accommodation. Luckily for us we have been using our base hotel in Kathmandu for 19 years and are given priority when things get crazy. It can sometimes get complicated and backed up in the city when a person books for 2-nights and then the weather turns bad and flights can't get out to the mountainous regions.

TA and Marian managed to get out to Phablu today and Tim is currently looking into options of a charter flight drop area below Lukla to see if we can dip down in there and drop personal bags and porter them up instead of relying on Lukla flights. When it gets busy people have priority over personal expedition bags. They can always follow later. All our expedition supplies are not an issue, they are already at base camp and have been for a couple weeks. Each season it's always a balance between weather, people and bags. The good thing is that somehow it always works out.

March 26, 2010: (09:00hrs Nepal time) ROUGH START: Bad weather in KTM has delayed TA and Marian for their flight to Phablu, a village below Lukla. You know it's bad when they can't get into Phablu.

The other rough start is Tim's current condition. For those of you who were following our Pumori training climb this past autumn, you may recall that Tim cracked a rib when a chunk of ice landed on him while in his tent. As bad luck would have it, on March 23 he had just one more thing to do before he left for Nepal. We had a display at the Nelson Museum which included a porter basket, oxygen bottle, trump line, helmet and crampons. He went to put it into our storage location which is still in winter conditions, slippery and sloped. He was in his runners and took a winger and cracked his lower back on a stump- shoot!!!... He had a huge welt across his back when we jumped on the plane. He now thinks he may have re-broke the rib. Time will tell, he is very optimistic he will be alright. He says his breathing is fine, he is just pretty sore.

Tonight Khalid is scheduled to arrive and tomorrow will be Hugo and Carina. Bit by bit the team is emerging on the capital city of Kathmandu.

March 25, 2010: Team making their way to KTM: Over the next few days climbers and base camp trekkers from all over the world will gather in Kathmandu to be part of our 2010 Everest Expedition. Many of our members have already climbed together on one of our training climbs while some will meet for the first time. First to arrive this season is Nawal Saigal from the UK on March 19 followed by TA Loeffler who arrived today- (Nepal time). Nawal has started his walk in from Jiri to Lukla, a seven day walk. TA will be walking in from a village below named Phablu to Lukla. She will do a slow walk in to Lukla and meet the team there on April 1. She reports from Kathmandu today that Kiran has delivered their tickets and her and Marian will be on the plane in the morning, weather permitting. The flights to Lukla have been cancelled the past two days and her flight from Delhi to Kathmandu was delayed due to the low ceiling currently hanging over the Kathmandu valley.

March 19, 2010: WEATHER REPORT FROM THE KHUMBU: We asked our Sherpas up in the Khumbu for a weather report to give us an idea on snow pack on Everest this year. This is what we got back.

"More snow has fallen this time than last year (same period). There is new snow on Everest at present. We had thunderstorm, hailstone in Kathmandu 2 weeks ago and up in the mountains there was fresh snowfall. There was snowfall up to Namche which remained for about a day (snow melted quite quickly once the skies cleared and the snow melted rapidly). Again 2 days ago we had thunderstorm in Kathmandu (windy conditions & scattered rains in the valley). Up in Khumbu there was fresh snowfall again which came down as far as Namche. There is fresh snow up in mountains (the snowline has come down). Now, however, everything is clear and sunny weather up in the Khumbu."

March 12, 2010: Lhakpa Gelgan reports that base camp is established. Oxygen has been delivered to Namche and is on its way to base camp in the next week. Food supplies were sent up February 10th.

As some of our readers may already know we are the "Green Team" in the Himalayas, we buy everything we need local eliminating the measures in tonnes of cargo supplies flying overseas to provide for our expeditions. All our fresh food is bought and brought up from the valleys below, giving back to the land and the people who have served us well.

All we need now is our climbers and the expedition will begin. Our official start date in Kathmandu is March 30th. Some climbers have already started making there way there. Stay tuned for updates coming here -very- soon and provided daily live from the mountainside.

MEET OUR 2010' CLIMBING TEAM AND EXPEDITION PARTNERS

	WESTERN GUIDES

Tim Rippel	Angel Armesto	Hugo Searle

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