September 23, 2012 IMG leader Mike Hamill made it back to Camp 2 and rejoined the IMG Team, after helping with the response to the avalanche at Camp 3. The IMG team is all doing well at Camp 2 and will spend another night there. Their plan is to descend to Base Camp in the […]
Archive: September, 2012
Avalanche Hits Camp 3; IMG Team Is All Well At C2
September 22, 2012 IMG Manaslu leader Mike Hamill reports that about 4:30am (local time) a serac fell triggering a slide that hit Camp 3. The IMG team is at Camp 2 and they are all safe and sound. Mike and several other guides are now responding to Camp 3 to assist.   We’ll be waiting for […]
Kili Crew Spots The Big Five
September 22, 2012 From: Chris Meder Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2012 11:43 PM To: Phil Ershler; Eric Simonson Subject:Â Having a blast Phil, Eric, We had a great day yesterday in Ngorongoro crater, seeing lots of animals including the Big Five, hippos, wildebeest, and a lesser known cat, the serival. The cooks prepared us another […]
Manaslu Climbers At Camp 2
September 22, 2012 Mike just called from Camp 2 to report that they pulled into camp between 11:00-11.30AM and that the team is doing well and the route conditions were good. Â He estimates that 150 people have now been up and down this section now, so it is well kicked-in. Â Sherpas carried oxygen from Base […]
Another Spectacular Safari
September 21, 2012 The Kili team checked in this morning, evening their time. Safari overload! All we got from them was that everyone’s feeling super after their summit success and that “we saw just about every animal between Serengeti and Ngorongoro today and the group is loving it.â€Â Guess that’s really all we need to […]
Manaslu Climbers Heading Up
September 20, 2012 IMG leader Mike Hamill reported by sat phone that the team took a good hike today to get the cobwebs worked out from their storm days. Â A number of teams did move up to Camp 1 today, and some sherpas from another team reached Camp 2 and report that the tents and […]
Manaslu Weather Improving
September 19, 2012 IMG’s weather forecaster Michael Fagin reports that the monsoon is starting to retreat from the Indian subcontinent. Good news! Ang Jangbu reported it rained hard for 50 straight hours in Kathmandu, but that now it is sunny and drying out. The satellite photo shows the moisture starting to move out of the […]
Getting Ready For Safari
September 19, 2012 Chris Meder reported gorgeous weather with no wind on the summit. They said it was quite welcome after a cold morning. People underestimate how cold it often is on that summit day. You’re high, so always a bit harder to stay warm. Going slow so everyone has a super good shot of […]
The Big Dig At Camp 1
September 18, 2012 We took another rest day today while the Sherpa team went up to Camp 1 to dig out the tents and pull the fixed lines out of the snow. There’s 6 inches of fresh snow here at Base Camp but the Sherpa reported a meter at Camp 1. The good news is […]
Manaslu Climbers Waiting At Base Camp
September 17, 2012 We are waiting at Base Camp for the weather to improve before heading up the mountain for our second rotation. We have had several days of rain and snow now, so hopefully it will start drying out soon! Our goal for this next rotation is to spend 4 nights on the mountain […]