The last few days have been a tough slog for the team. We’ve done load carries to Yak Camp (at 5400m) back down to BC and then back up to Yak Camp to for a sleep and then carried on up to C1 (5800m) for and afternoons acclimatisation "stroll". Of course C1 was covered in […]

It’s taken us a while but we are most certainly now at Ama Dabalam Basecamp. It took some of us (me) an extra day to get here after being laid low by the gatro bug. Not much fun at all but normally at least one person on an expedition gets it. After an extra days […]

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 […]