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Kuriki's Plan:

“Hello, Tibetan Base Camp”
Yesterday we got to the Tibetan Base Camp. From here, we head to the Base Camp of The North Wall. Yak carry the luggage.

Now, clouds started to hang over Everest. I hope to get to the base camp of the North Wall without problem.

After arriving at the base camp, we are going to do a ceremony called "Puja" to pray for the safety of this attempt, then I will move to ABC (Advanced Base Camp) of the Normal Route to leave for 7500m to acclimatize to the altitude.

Afterwords, I will go back to the Base Camp of the North Wall to take a rest, then I will move to the Advanced Base Camp of the North Wall, where I start climbing all by myself.

I'm going to share my adventure in full-scale.

This year, my team has small number of people but they are all accustomed to the severe conditions; Two Japanese staff, three Nepalese staff who carry tripods and telephoto lenses, a cook and his assistant.

Before, when I made an attempt from the Nepalese side, I had to bring three groups of teams to share my adventure, because from the Base Camp, they couldn´t see me climbing. I put 2 more teams at Camp 1 and the Base Camp of another mountain called Pu Mori, so we had to be a big group. However last year, I found out that whole the North Wall can be seen from the bottom. This year, I brought only two Japanese staff. They will share my attempt from the Advanced Base Camp, using the telephoto scope.


"Welcome to Everest"

Finally I could have uploaded the movie of the acclimating.

I moved from the base camp of the North Wall to the base camp of the Normal Route, making a half way round Everest.

Then I planned to climb North Col to acclimating. All the team member couldn't come with me, so now I'm came back and finally could have uploaded this video.

That was a really long way…

I headed the altitude of 7500m, but it was too windy so I turned back at the altitude of 7350m.