Everest Dispatch #90
May 30, 2009
Katmandu
By Dave Hahn
What a difference a day or two can make. The First Ascent team walked out of Namche and down through the farms and fields of Phak Ding the other morning. In short order, we’d gone from snow, ice and rock to wheat, barley and happy little kids [...]
Everest Dispatch #89
May 27, 2009
Namche, Nepal
By Dave Hahn
The cyclone pushed us out of Everest Basecamp. Early yesterday morning, it tried to crush us in our tents. Heavy, wet snow was falling at the rate of perhaps three inches per hour. Everything was getting buried fast… tents, yaks, climbing gear. It was [...]
Everest Dispatch #88
May 25, 2009
Everest Basecamp
By Dave Hahn
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an Everest season end so early or so abruptly. It began snowing hard at basecamp at around 6 AM and that has continued without pause for the entire day. Cyclone 02B out of the Bay of Bengal is the likely [...]
Everest Dispatch #87
May 24, 2009
Everest Basecamp
’09 Pre-Monsoon Climbing Season
There are two distinct sounds that jar me away from the day to day life at Basecamp and instantly remind me of the sobering landscape in which we are living. The first starts as a low grumble, like a distant roll of thunder moving up the valley, [...]
Everest Dispatch #86
May 24, 2009
Basecamp
I was perplexed this morning at ABC. Shouldn’t a night’s sleep have healed all wounds and refreshed me enough to seize one more Everest day? But as I lay –uncomfortably- in my sleeping bag at 5:30 AM, rubbing my eyes, stifling coughs and wondering why so many muscles hurt… I remembered [...]
Team Hahn Summit Day Audio Dispatch #02
Everest Dispatch #85
6:00pm May 23 Nepal Time
Email from Basecamp:
We heard from Dave that the the summit team are currently descending from the South Col to Camp 2. They departed the Col. at approx. 12.30pm and are expected to arrive at Camp 2 around 5 pm. We will post an entry as soon as the team arrives at Camp 2.
Gerry
Email from Basecamp:
Hi there,
The summit team including Dave, Seth, Melissa and Kent have arrived safely at the south col. They plan to spend a few hours resting and evaluate the weather conditions before making the decision to spend the night at camp 4, or descend to camp 2. As soon as we hear from [...]
*Next dispatch from the team will be at the South Col, their descent
will take approximately 4 hours
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