원정 개요

Teams showed up at BC in 3 waves and this team happy to be among first wave. If all had shown up, would have been impossibly crowded; it was bad enough when Koreans put C2 right in middle of trail and was necessary to unclip from rope until Moffat fixed rope around them (Koreans demonstrated lack of space for camp platforms).

Emerson reached C1 and then got a stomach "bug" and left BC 2 Nov; Couglin went to C2 but went no higher because of exhaustion and retreated to BC.


Calling from the summit of Ama Dablam

"That's right, the summit!" The Adventure Consultants team reached the top of the Ama Dablam at about 2:30 pm Nepal time today and expedition leader Luis Benitez whipped out the satellite phone to call in the good news. "Every body is felling really, really good. We're taking pictures, eating chocolates, slapping each other on the back.... we've got a great view of Everest and just enjoying each other's company before its time to go down. So .. we did it!" And befoe Luis hung up the phone, the guys sent up wild cheer of excitement live from the summit of Ama Dablam.

The team has since filed a second audio dispatch to report that they are now safely back in C3 and will return to C1 tomorrow. Luis reported that team members Joe and Hamish had remained in BC, unable to make the bid due to stomach bugs and other ailments, but the guys were all on the summit in spirit.