September 29, 2008
While I am sitting here typing and enjoying my last real cup of coffee for a few days, lots is going on on the hill. Our members are moving to Camp 1 at 5700 meters with 6 days of food and all of their high altitude gear on their backs. Our summit push begins today!
Meanwhile, our Sherpa team is on day two of a herculean effort to get the mountain into shape for our attempt. As we had feared,...
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September 24, 2008
The days since our last update have been challenging ones, but this time not due to hard climbing at high altitude. For the past 6 days, various storms have taken their turn hitting Manaslu’s slopes, and here at basecamp we have seen more than our fair share of snowflakes and whiteouts. With the exception of one day when our sherpa team re-established the route between BC and Camp 1 (and spent...
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September 18, 2008
The last week has been a fun one on the world’s eighth tallest peak. Somewhat unsettled weather down in basecamp (rain and snow almost every day) has meant lots of shovelling snow, drying out gear, and conserving solar power for the “essential” purposes of watching DVD’s, nightly dj-ing in the dining tent by various team members on their iPods, and emails to our friends, families, and businesses...
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September 16, 2008
Satellite phone call from Adrian this evening. 5 members of the group made it up to Camp 2 (6400m) in difficult conditions. The team woke up at 3am to howling winds, went back to bed, but persevered at 8am. They set the route up again through a foot of newly fallen snow. The rest of the team made it to just below Camp 2. All slept at Camp 1 and raced down to Basecamp for a hot breakfast and rest...
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September 11, 2008
Hard to believe it has already been two weeks since our Manaslu team met for the first time in Kathmandu. The last two weeks has been a whirlwind of organizing gear and people, and progressively moving from Kathmandu to Pokhara to Samagaon to Manaslu Basecamp, and finally onto the mountain itself. Here are a few highlights from these last fourteen days that now find us poised to begin sleeping...
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