AS we sit here in Pangboche, its time to wash all our cloths – many of us haven’t had a decent chance to wash our cloths fully for almost 3 weeks now! The team is either reading, sleeping, drinking water or simply staring up at Ama Dablam. The mountain rises up almost directly above us […]
Just a very short update. Whilst the walking for the last 3 days has been fairly easy – the team have been putting in long long days. Not only are the teams legs feeling iut but we are all quite smelly! We are currently sitting in a tea house in Pangboche where we will have […]
On the Road to Ama Dablam….. Over the last few days we have crossed back over from the Hinku Valley back into the Solokhumbu. We climbed from Khote to a small town / teahouse called Thuli Kharaka. This involved dropping down from Khote at 3550m to about 3300m before climbing back up to 4300m again. […]
First off – everybody on the MIA team is very well. We were stuck in Khare for 3 1/2 days whilst it snowed consistently. When it began to clear there had been over 2m of accumulation with what I estimate to be about 3 m of snow fall. The day we were due to head […]