August 30, 2009 Eric Simonson talked to IMG Guide Greg Vernovage on the sat phone last night… The team had arrived at Base Camp and they’re all doing fine.  The Sherpas had Base Camp already set up and Greg says everything looks good! The team will spend a couple days at BC before they move […]

August 30, 2009 Everything is moving right along on our Cho Oyu Expedition in Tibet. The team had a successful acclimatization hike this morning before they depart for Base Camp tomorrow. It’ll be a smaller group at dinner tonight as most of the Sherpa have left for Base Camp to prepare for the rest of […]

August 23, 2009 IMG Guide Greg Vernovage dropped us an email from Kathmandu this morning and said that most of the team has arrived in Nepal and those that haven’t they’ll pick up along the way. So with most of the team on hand they had the Team Welcome Dinner at the historical Rum Doodle […]

Monday, March 23 2009 Eric Simonson writes: I wanted to take a minute to summarize where we ended up on the spring Cho Oyu climb: We waited as long as we could for confirmation from the Chinese that the Cho Oyu permit and visa would be available, but were unable to get this nailed down, […]