New World Record, Apa Sherpa, Climbing Leader of Eco Everest Expedition 2011 reached the summit of Mt. Everest for the 21st time – a new world record. At 09:15am this morning, Eco Everest Expedition Climbing Leader Apa Sherpa and members Chris Shumate(49 yrs) of USA , Bruno Gremior(39yrs) of Switzerland together with three Altitude Slimbing Sherpas, Ang Dawa Sherpa, Phurba Sherpa, [...]
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Sunday, 08 May 2011 08:19 Sun 08 May Published in Asian Trekking Blog Written by Asian Trekking Stormy winds and destroyed tents but all is well that ends well. The Brazilians are down in C2 and Apa and the second summit team are heading up to Camp 3 tomorrow, aiming to be on the top [...]
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Published in Asian Trekking Blog Written by Wiggy First Asian Trekking Summit of Everest this year, Apa, Chris and Deke call off summit push due to winds. The Brazilians are going to Camp 2 and try to summit if the winds turn out not as bad as the forecasts.
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Published in Asian Trekking Blog Written by Asian Trekking The Summit Team are now at Camp 2, on their way to the summit. Carlos, Rodrigo and CarlitoEarly morning and the team gathers in the mess tent, slowly equipment is made ready as the climbers go through final preparations for the climb ahead. Breakfast is taken [...]
Published in Asian Trekking Blog Written by Asian Trekking Eco Everest Exp 2011- 1st. Wave Ready For The SUMMIT Push Eco Everest Exp 2011- 1st. Wave Ready For The SUMMIT Push and Media Coverage Links Written by Ang Tshering Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition 2011 and International Dream Everest Expedition 2011 Team Members and Staffs Our [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Sunday, April 24, 2011 In Dingbouche Again April 17. I’m up early. It’s another crystal clear dawn in Dingbouche. The weather pattern so far has been clear mornings, wind rising later on toward noon, then clouds moving in around 1:00 or 2:00 pm, followed by precipitation, possibly–or just cloud and wind. The peaks generally become [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Monday, April 18, 2011 Trek to Gorak Shep April 16. We are in Tashi’s lodge having club sandwiches and French fries. This is a surprise because Loboche is 4,980 meters elevation, about 16,000 feet, and everything is carried in. Damian Vegas comes in (last name uncertain). He’s an Argentinean guide Apa knows from years of [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Thursday, April 14, 2011 Namche-Thamo-Thame-Khumjung-Tengbouche-Dingbouche Namche to Thame. Only Apa and I will trek to Thame. The rest of our team is going part of the way, about half the distance, to Thamo. We will all eat lunch there, but then the team will return to Namche for the night and Apa and I will [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Sunday, April 17, 2011 Trek to Loboche April 15. Dingbouche to Loboche. The route to Loboche takes us up the ridge behind the Snow Lion lodge where we climbed yesterday searching for a cell phone signal. Apa turns around. Someone is calling his name and waving a red handkerchief in the potato field below us. [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 Flight to Lukla View out the windows: to the left in the far distance snow-covered peaks show above traces of cloud, to the right steep slopes with fewer and fewer terraced plots. We are flying toward a wall of brown mountains. No snow at this elevation. “Not far now,” Wiggy says. [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Monday, April 11, 2011 Kathmandu to Lukla Kathmandu, April 3. We leave the airport in Ang’s Tshering’s Toyota. Driving is on the left side. The traffic is fast and fierce. 125 cc motorcycles are the vehicle of choice. They jockey for position with each other and spar with the small Indian-made cars and trucks. “So [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Arriving in Kathmandu Correction to the earlier entry: the LA to Bangkok flight did not detour east of North Korea, but rather west. After we crossed from China into Vietnam we actually flew just west of Hanoi and then straight down over Vientiane in Laos. In the span of 36 hours [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
Saturday, April 2, 2011 Bangkok Airport Flight 795 to Bangkok, 200 AM: just woke up, looked out window on left side of plane. Lights. Seems odd, why city lights when we’re flying over the ocean? Monitor in the back of the seat in front of me (Apa’s seat actually—we both have left-side window seats) shows [...]
2011 Apa Sherpa Eco Everest Expedition
http://apasherpaeverest2011.blogspot.com/2011/04/april-1st-departure-day.html Friday, April 1, 2011 April 1st Departure Day In a perfect world we would have spent months preparing for a departure like this, but as with most similar endeavors the constraints of everyday life have intervened. Apa and I are getting on the plane in a dozen hours whether we are ready or not. [...]