With yesterday’s fresh snow, try<\/a> teams were content to take a day or so to let it settle. Unlike expeditions on Denali where you are stuck for a week at the 14 camp or High Camp in your tent or snow cave, on Everest, climbers have the luxury of large tents, folding chairs and tables. And at Base camp, heaters!<\/p>\n
Some climbers take down time to the extreme. Simone Moro, who in addition to climbing for himself, is first guiding a member on Everest returned to Kathmandu via helicopter from base Camp for their R&R!!<\/p>\n
But the weather always has the final say on each day As Eric Simonson of IMG simply said<\/p>\n
\nI talked to Phil Ershler on the sat phone, and he reports that nobody moved on the mountain today after a healthy overnight snowfall of at least\u00a06\u00a0inches.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
So wait it is. I like what TA Loeffler said:<\/p>\n
\nHi this is TA calling in from the poker room also know as the dinning tent, there are five of us here that have been involved in marathon climb of epic card proportions, we are on our 6 \u00bd or 7th hour of playing cards.\u00a0 It was a fabulous day; we even got to turn on the heaters at 3 o\u2019clock this afternoon.\u00a0 Why where we playing cards for 6 or seven hours today? Well that because it snow about 6 inches here at base camp last night, perhaps even as much as a foot up at camp 2.\u00a0 Thus we declared it a \u201cSnow Day\u201d, those of us who grew up in Canada, know that a snow day is a great excuse to sit around, play cards, drink lots of hot drinks, rest up, and say \u201cwow what a wonderful day to laugh out load\u201d.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s what\u2019s on the go here, depending on the weather things may start moving up and down the mountain again tomorrow.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking to maybe head up on the 4th for my little rotation.\u00a0 I\u2019m out of the current card game at the moment, that\u2019s why I could call in this update.\u00a0 So all is well here at base camp, spirits are good, food is delicious as we are a smaller group with about half down resting in Pheriche.\u00a0 Hope you are having a great day, hope you are stepping up to the summit challenge.\u00a0 Talk to you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
This is TA’s second attempt on Everest and had high hopes. But illness has kept her from going beyond Base Camp. She is with Peak Freaks. I met with TA a few weeks before she left for Everest and was impressed with her training and attitude. This is certainly not what she envisioned. But there is still time for her to catch up in the acclimatization rotations and go for the top. Climb On TA!<\/p>\n
With this downtime, it is interesting to read the post of\u00a0 EverestEr. They are a totally volunteer organization to provide medical services to climbers, and more importantly, to Sherpas, porters and the local community – these last at no charge. Expeditions used to bring a doctor along but now depend on EverestER. Think about it for a minute. You go to the remote regions of northern Neal and you can get western quality medical care for $100 throughout the expedition. Now that’s health care reform!<\/p>\n
\nwe’ve been busy in the , setting all-time records having seen 227 people so far. It’s not because the EBC community is especially or clumsy this year, it’s because we’re the go-to medical advice for most of base camp now, most teams having made the switch over from bringing their private doctors. We are happy to be busy and to have our services valued by so many.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n