Wednesday, May 14, 2008

May 13th report from Summit Climb

Arnold from Summit Climb reported on the 13th from camp 2:

Tonight Christian, Eric, Michael, Andrew, and the three Mallorys will sleep in camp 3 to prepare for their summit attempt. They will go down tomorrow and rest in basecamp. In that time, all of the sherpas will start carrying all of the oxygen to camp 4 and prepare the high camp so that everything is ready for our members to summit.

I estimate that the first members will summit around the 20th of May, if the weather allows us of course. Everybody is quite healthy and strong.

So we’re doing well here and everybody is getting pretty excited to go to the summit. The clock starts to tick now. In a few weeks we’ll probably be finished. After all of the delays with waiting for the Chinese to summit everything is going very fast now.


Where is the 4th Mallory? Adam must be below camp 2. I assume he is still recovering or on his way up to camp 2. There are sherpas and other members in the larger Summit Climb group he can climb with when he is ready.

There are several satellite phones on the mountain but where they are and whether they are charged and/or working is the question. They have to be charged from a solar panel at base camp when it is sunny.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have been inspired by your expedition to read more about Everest. One of the things I noticed is that there is about 5% of those attempting the climb have died. How did you make the decision to take on this risk? Has the family made decisions ahead of time about the level of risk they will accept in making their decision about who will make the final summit?

Anonymous said...

Good luck to all trying to make it to the top of the world. I hope everyone is is good health and keep on going. Great to hear about the progress so far.

Bob in the Nass Valley said...

glad things are going smoothly. Few can appreciate the tremondous accomplishment you have attained already - not people ever reach 24 000 feet!!!
stay well ...

love bob & liz

Barbara said...

We have always challenged our children both physically and mentally. As a result, we now have young adults with excellent problem solving skills, who know their strengths and weaknesses and listen to their bodies. Everyone did the research and when asked if they wanted to come on the trip everyone immediately said yes.
The great thing about being in this family is that you always look out for each other and cheer each other on. We worked hard to make this happen. I trust in the family's ability to make intelligent decisions. We are living our dream.