September 22, 2010 Mike Hamill reported in yesterday evening: “We’re pulling the trigger. We just finished breakfast and are headed to C1 in a few minutes. It’s snowing a bit this morning as predicted, but it should be a lot drier for the rest of the week. We’re shooting for the 25th as our summit day. The […]
September 20, 2010 IMG Leader Mike Hamill reports from ABC that “the weather has improved and the IMG team is still resting at ABC.  Our plan is to summit on the 25th, so another rest day tomorrow and then we’ll head up. We had a rope fixing meeting with all the other teams at the TMA [Tibet […]
September 18, 2010 IMG Leader Mike Hamill reports that the weather has improved a bit and the TMA team got the injured Tibetan climber out last night and he is stable with just a broken rib. We are hoping to get some climbers back up to finish the fixing above C3 once the slopes have stabilized […]
September 17, 2010 IMG leader Mike Hamill reports from ABC that the weather at Cho Oyu is bad today, with wind and snowfall. Our team members are at ABC hanging out, where there has not been too much accumulation of snow.  Mike reports that several of the TMA climbers were trying to fix in the […]
September 16, 2010 Mike Hamill reports: “The team has now returned to ABC from a successful acclimatization rotation to C2. The weather has been excellent but after returning the wind picked up and we’ve had snow since.  We are now hoping to head up on a summit bid after 4 days of rest, weather depending. […]
September 12, 2010 Mike Hamill reports from ABC that the team has started the C2 rotation. Â Jurg, Markus, Karl, Wolf, and 3 Sherpas headed to C1 today in beautiful weather and the rest of the team will move to C1 tomorrow. Our Sherpas have been busy the last couple days and they now have six […]
September 10, 2010 IMG Leader Mike Hamill reports that the team had a good rotation to C1 (about 20,500 feet or 6250m) and that everyone is now back to the thicker air, good food, and hot showers at ABC. In addition to sleeping at Camp 1 most of the group also continued up to the […]
September 7, 2010 IMG Leader Mike Hamill reports that the team is all healthy now and all is well here. Karl, Markus, and Wolf are on their way up to C1 to sleep with Kami and Karma Rita. Ang Pasang is up there today as well. Da Nuru and Mingma Tenzing are fixing a few pitches […]
September 5, 2010 Mike Hamill reports from ABC that everyone is doing surprisingly well with the altitude, with almost no headaches or issues. Today the Sherpas and team members had a good puja ceremony and also got the Bgan internet terminal up and running, two important things! Mike reports that the weather seems to be […]
September 4, 2010 Mike Hamill reports by sat phone that the team all made it up to ABC in good shape and that everyone is doing well. The IMG Sherpas did a great job getting the camp set up and all the yaks up there with the gear, so everything was looking good for the […]
