My trip to the top of Everest
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Antony Moxey said:
Bubbas Grill said:
UTH said:
If it's any consolation, I do find myself feeling bad that I'm letting you guys down.
I promise I'll get to it soon. If it's worth it.....can't promise anything
When and if you can, it will be most exciting to read! Thanks for all your efforts so far Sir and please ignore any doubters or posts of some bizarre entitlement. The internet really is a strange place. I promise I'll get to it soon. If it's worth it.....can't promise anything
Looking forward to the next instalment when you're ready OP
Being as the thread hasn't been updated I've watched a couple of everest docs...
Dying for Everest - about Mike Inglis, really pretty interesting, not that much footage of the mountain
Find Micheal - about Micheal Matthews and trying to find his body. Less interesting but some stunning footage... Including some that really shows its a bit more than a steady hike at altitude!
Fair play UTH, stunning achievement.
Dying for Everest - about Mike Inglis, really pretty interesting, not that much footage of the mountain
Find Micheal - about Micheal Matthews and trying to find his body. Less interesting but some stunning footage... Including some that really shows its a bit more than a steady hike at altitude!
Fair play UTH, stunning achievement.
The journey from camp 1 to camp 2 this first rotation was weirdly one of the hardest part of my trip. It was a very slow incline, in a straight line, that just felt like it went on forever. It was pretty much the only time our guide and my climbing partner got ahead of me, and by quite some way. No idea why I struggled, maybe just the mental boredom of plodding along in a straight line seemingly getting nowhere closer to the camp you could see way off in the distance.
Seems that slow plod didn't really warrant many photos as it was dull, but we did come up against a pretty impressive wall of ice not far out of camp 1
The idea for the next few days was to spend a fair bit of time at camp 2 with one trip to camp 3 to spend the night, all in the name of letting the body spend more time at much higher altitude before heading back to basecamp to rest before we headed off on our summit push. The daunting part of this part was tackling the Lhotse face for the first time which is bloody steep and bloody long.
We did a walk from camp 2 to the bottom of the Lhotse face as part of the whole 'keep fit and moving' idea
Just about make out people climbing up the face:
Of course the higher we were getting, the closer the top was getting
This is taken from the bottom of the face looking back down the Western Cwm, with camp 2 behind us and camp 1 waaaaaaay back down the valley. Gives you an idea of the scale
And this is what camp 2 looks like from that vantage point
One of my faves
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After a night at camp 2 we then headed off in our downsuits for the first time to head up the face to camp 3
Staring up at what we needed to scale
GoPro on my helmet got the best shots
A seemingly never ending wall of ice to keep climbing
Finally arrived and spent a night at camp 3 acclimatising
View back down the valley from camp 3 tent
Best thing of all though is that the top really did start feeling closer....
I think this was the other two descending behind me
We will have spent the night at camp 2 that night then headed back down to the bottom, so a couple of generic shots on the way back down
Back at the bottom our bodies were now ready for the top, so it was a case of waiting for the right weather window and just staying active but rested
One amazing surprise; the doctor who had been on the trekking part of the trip but had flown back to Kathmandu where he lived when the trek was over, had somehow managed to get this sent out with one of the supply helicopters that land at basecamp and it found its way to us!! We certainly had a few merry nights.....
Anyone who knows anything about basecamp treks knows a lot of people head up to this spot as its the highest point 'trekkers' can get to, so we figured we might as well do it as well on our off day.
View from the top, becoming like any other view really!
Naturally had to celebrate getting to the top of that with some beers in the village
And it seems it was only at this point in the trip did I decide to take a couple of photos of basecamp!
Mine and my buddie's tents:
Kitchen
Dining, storage and comms tents
And it looks like this was the final shot I took from basecamp before we'd be heading up the next morning in our attempt to stand on the top
Seems that slow plod didn't really warrant many photos as it was dull, but we did come up against a pretty impressive wall of ice not far out of camp 1
The idea for the next few days was to spend a fair bit of time at camp 2 with one trip to camp 3 to spend the night, all in the name of letting the body spend more time at much higher altitude before heading back to basecamp to rest before we headed off on our summit push. The daunting part of this part was tackling the Lhotse face for the first time which is bloody steep and bloody long.
We did a walk from camp 2 to the bottom of the Lhotse face as part of the whole 'keep fit and moving' idea
Just about make out people climbing up the face:
Of course the higher we were getting, the closer the top was getting
This is taken from the bottom of the face looking back down the Western Cwm, with camp 2 behind us and camp 1 waaaaaaay back down the valley. Gives you an idea of the scale
And this is what camp 2 looks like from that vantage point
One of my faves
After a night at camp 2 we then headed off in our downsuits for the first time to head up the face to camp 3
Staring up at what we needed to scale
GoPro on my helmet got the best shots
A seemingly never ending wall of ice to keep climbing
Finally arrived and spent a night at camp 3 acclimatising
View back down the valley from camp 3 tent
Best thing of all though is that the top really did start feeling closer....
I think this was the other two descending behind me
We will have spent the night at camp 2 that night then headed back down to the bottom, so a couple of generic shots on the way back down
Back at the bottom our bodies were now ready for the top, so it was a case of waiting for the right weather window and just staying active but rested
One amazing surprise; the doctor who had been on the trekking part of the trip but had flown back to Kathmandu where he lived when the trek was over, had somehow managed to get this sent out with one of the supply helicopters that land at basecamp and it found its way to us!! We certainly had a few merry nights.....
Anyone who knows anything about basecamp treks knows a lot of people head up to this spot as its the highest point 'trekkers' can get to, so we figured we might as well do it as well on our off day.
View from the top, becoming like any other view really!
Naturally had to celebrate getting to the top of that with some beers in the village
And it seems it was only at this point in the trip did I decide to take a couple of photos of basecamp!
Mine and my buddie's tents:
Kitchen
Dining, storage and comms tents
And it looks like this was the final shot I took from basecamp before we'd be heading up the next morning in our attempt to stand on the top
Incredible!
Did you ever slip or fall and need to use the rope?
What sort of temperatures were you experiencing?
How are the loos at camp and how’d you relieve yourself mid trek/climb if needed? Odd question I know, but curious as to how some of the practicalities are in such an environment.
Did you ever slip or fall and need to use the rope?
What sort of temperatures were you experiencing?
How are the loos at camp and how’d you relieve yourself mid trek/climb if needed? Odd question I know, but curious as to how some of the practicalities are in such an environment.
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