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Listen to my latest phonecast

Listen to my latest phonecast

Thursday 16th May 2013 – After 9 days of rest / recovery at Base Camp following our second rotation on Everest we are now beginning the third and most important cycle before we head home. We are doing the first phase of our summit bid rotation by nipping back up to Advanced Base Camp today, […]

Wednesday 15th May 2013 – Today we are having a final rest / recovery day before we commence our journey to the top of the world (and back). Life at camp today started fairly routinely with the breakfast gong (a stone being hit on a gas cylinder) waking me up at 7:50am Nepalese time so […]

Tuesday 14th May 2013 – we arrived in Base Camp in Tibet one month ago today and since then we have successfully completed two acclimatisation cycles on Everest. I have reached, so far, a personal high point of about 7,200m and slept at 7,060m. These are personal successes but the main objective of trying to […]

Monday 13th May 2013 – Today is a further rest/recovery day in advance of our summit push. We are at Base Camp in Tibet at the moment. We will probably remain here for a few more days before heading up to Advanced Base Camp for a third time and then start our summit bid. Perhaps […]

Sunday 12th May 2013 – This is the sixth full day in a row down here at Base Camp resting and waiting for our Everest summit bid. It is windy at Base Camp today but Everest is back in sight and the snow that fell here yesterday afternoon has been rapidly melting away. In previous […]

Saturday 11th May 2013 – This is a further rest/recovery day for us at Base Camp in Tibet. Information sources are telling us that in the brief weather window yesterday that the ropes have now been fixed all of the way to the summit on both the North and South sides. This means that the […]

Friday 10th May 2013 – today was another recovery/rest day for us at Base Camp whilst we wait for the ropes to be fixed to the summit of Everest and for a suitable weather window. Today, after lunch we took a wander down to the local temporary Tibetan village which is about an hour’s walk downhill […]