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Summitting Everest

Thu - 20 May Written by Robert Gatt

We have summitted Mt Everest on May 17th at 0621 hours Nepal time. And we arrived into basecamp yesterday afternoon, descending 3500m. Thanks to your support and interest, we have consumed the website bandwidth made available by our webhosting company with the effect that the website was suspended as of yesterday. We have now normalised the situation.

In the next 24 hours, we will post a full record of our climb to the top of Mt Everest and include photos. Appreciate your patience and thanks again for your support

Best Regards, Robert

*** Updated 22 May 2010 09:33 GMT  - Challenge8000 on the top of the World - Summit Photos!!!***

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The Lady Is Not Ready

Mon - 03 May Written by Robert Gatt

As I look out of our 6-man dining tent towards the Khumbu icefall and beyond, I feel a slight sense of relief that we stayed put at basecamp this morning, instead of leaving at 3 am towards Camp 2. The weather remains unsettled for a summit push. Once again we have white-out conditions at basecamp with sporadic snowfalls and very light easterly winds. Unsure about conditions higher up but I won’t hold my breath for blue skies unless I want to get hypoxic.

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Abode of the Gods

Fri - 30 Apr Written by Robert Gatt

What a fantastic place this Everest Base Camp is! From the moment we set our sights on our home for the next 6 weeks or so after climbing KalaPatthar on April 14th, I have been staring in awe at the amphitheatre of peaks.  

To our east, the Khumbu icefall is sandwiched between Nuptse on the south and Everest West shoulder to the north. Changtse lies west of the north col of Everest, inside Tibet and Khumbutse towers over the entire valley and is the main source of the Khumbu glacier on which we are camped. Further west is Lingtren, with its fantastic 50 degrees snow and ice south west face. And right behind our tents is Pumori  - a conical shaped summit guarded majestically by layers of seracs.    Read more...
 

Diary of the Challenge8000 Expedition - Everest 2010

Tue - 25 May Written by Administrator

Last update:

25 May 2010 19:41 GMT

The Challenge8000 team has made it back to Kathmandu after an early morning flight from Lukla, just ahead of the bad weather that is expected to hit Lukla today and last for at least the next 4 days.  They are currently enjoying the luxuries of life - a hot shower, clean clothes, a proper toilet, good food and internet access after living it rough for the last 50 odd days.They are currently sorting out their flights back to Malta.

Note:The diary of the expedition comes to an end today. Please visit the website for news of the team's homecoming and more.  Coming soon - photos and an account of the expedition

On behalf of the Challenge8000 team, thank you to each and everyone for your support and well wishes and not least, thank you to all their sponsors for their help and assistance in making the expedition possible

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