September 10, 2011 Good reports from Tibet from IMG Guides Craig John and Mike Hamill overnight. Hamill reports that the Shishapangma team is on their second of three rest days at Advanced Base Camp after their Camp 1 Rotation. The Sherpas are higer on the mountain working on the route to Camp 2. After a […]
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Shish’ Team @ Camp 1; Cho Oyu Team Having Cake
September 8, 2011 Cho Oyu— Members who spent night of the 6th came down to ABC safe and we celebrated Kumaran’s 27th birthday last night. Attached are couple of shots. Depending on weather, we plan to send the sherpa team to do a carry to camp 1 tomorrow. Shishapangma— I talked to Mike Hamill on […]
Cho Oyu & Shishapangma Team Establish C1
September 5, 2011 With their pujas behind them, it is time for the climbing to start! Mike Hamill on Shishapangma and Ang Jangbu on Cho Oyu report that both teams are on essentially the same schedules. Today the sherpas from each team made it up to their respective Camp 1 sites, and got those camps […]
It’s Puja Time
September 2, 2011 IMG leader Mike Hamill reports that the Shishapangma team is doing well up at Advanced Base Camp, with their final yak loads now having arrived. Today Mike, Kami, and Panuru took a reconaissance hike up a ways towards Camp 1, and everyone will be hiking and/or relaxing tomorrow. Over at Cho Oyu, […]
Tibet Climbers On The Move!
August 31, 2011 IMG guide Max Bunce reports that today the Cho Oyu climbers moved up to Interim Camp (known as IC) which is on the moraine of the Gyabrag Glacier at about 17,000 feet.  They are accompanied by the yaks, which are making a second roundtrip to ABC. Max says everyone is doing well […]
Cho Oyu And Shishapangma Climbers Reach Base Camps
August 28, 2011 IMG Leaders Craig John, Mike Hamill, and Ang Jangbu report that after two nights in Tingri (14000+ feet) and a good day of acclimatization hiking yesterday to over 15000 feet, the two IMG teams have now officially split and headed for their Base Camps! For Mike Hamill and the Shishapangma climbers, they […]
Tibet Teams Head To Tingri
August 26, 2011 Eric, We’re about to hop in the vehicles here in Nyalam, and to head to Tingri.  The teams are healthy and acclimatizing well. Yesterday we took a longer hike gaining a few thousand feet. The weather is clear and sunny; much better than this time last year, so hopefully it holds and the monsoons […]
Cho Oyu And Shishapangma Climbers Reach Nyalam
August 24, 2011 Ang Jangbu reports that the team successfully drove up the rugged Bhote Kosi gorge and have now reached Nyalam (a little over 12000 feet). Tomorrow he will send four Shishapangma sherpas to Shishapangma BC and eight of the Cho Oyu sherpas on to Cho Oyu BC, to start getting those camps set […]
Cho Oyu & Shishapangma Climbers Enter Tibet
August 23, 2011 I talked with Jangbu a while ago, and he reports that all the members, Sherpas, and luggage has all reached Zhangmu! This is great news, and it means that everything is proceeding on schedule. Just getting to Tibet is no small feat, and it sounds like the team had some issues en […]
Leaving For Tibet
August 22, 2011 The Cho Oyu and Shishapangma teams got their visas today from the Chinese Embassy and we are all scheduled leave the hotel at 6AM tomorrow morning. There was a land slide yesterday 7 km before Kodari (on the Nepal side of the border) down near the hydro dam. They tried to clear […]