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Everest Base Camp was a pretty amazing experience, as we afforded the opportunity to share in the enormous enterprise of trying to climb the world's highest peak.
Here the extended group poses for a photo. This photo includes not only the expedition team, but a group of some trekkers as well as the Quokka.com team (who is covering this expedition on a daily basis with internet coverage). The actually expedition includes 4 clients, 2 guides, 2 climbers who are filming/covering the climb, and 10 climbing sherpas (together with Sherpa support staff at Base Camp).
Some of the large seracs, or ice-blocks, that sit at the head of Base Camp.
Rich, Steve Greenholz (climber), Mike Dunnahoo (climber) and Geoff Saco (Mountain Hard Wear representative) at the foot of the Icefall.
While it would get bitterly cold once the sun set, during the day, with the sun, it could be downright balmy. Here, Rich, Steve and Geoff hang out at the Everest Base Camp Beach, right outside Steve and Mike's tent. Complete with great music and munchies, it was rather relaxing.
On beach day, Steve even entertained us with some juggling. All in the name of relaxing and conserving energy in advance of the summit push.
Mike kicks back in his tent, his home for the next month or two, and tinkers with the computer that was lent to him by his employer, the Eleventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals.
In the mess tent at night, Rich, Kelly, Mike, Steve, and Geoff enjoy a spirited game of Hearts.
Kelly gets comfortable inside her down sleeping bag, and settles in for a good night's sleep. While sleeping at altitude is not the easiest thing to do (at Base Camp, only one-half of the oxygen we breathe at sea level is available), it is always nice to be warm.
Continue to Everest Base Camp 2 to meet more of the climbing team and Sherpa staff.
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The
Khumbu Icefall, as seen from Base Camp. This is the first, and most
dangerous, challenge for the climbers as they make their way through a tangled
mass of ice-blocks, many the size of condominiums and some listing
precariously. It is also here where they have the fun of walking the
aluminum ladders which bridge the chasm over crevasses whose bottoms are too
deep to discern.
