The mountain gods are mellowing

May 3, 2012 Expedition dispatches acclimatisation, altitude junkies, blogging, china tibet mountaineering association, everest, grant rawlinson, jetstream, phil crampton, sherpas, tibet, weather forecasts 2 Comments

The mountain gods are mellowing

Yesterday afternoon Everest wore the biggest plume of cloud I’ve ever seen, extending the entire length of the Northeast Ridge and beyond. I don’t know what the mountain gods were doing up there, but it was obvious they didn’t want

Roar of a thousand tigers; the North Col Wall

April 29, 2012 Expedition dispatches acclimatisation, altitude junkies, david breashears, dorje sherpa, edmund hillary, everest, everest base camp, ian cartwright, jetstream, mark dickson, sherpas, weather 5 Comments

Roar of a thousand tigers; the North Col Wall

Apart from the occasional brief hour of silence, I can’t remember the last time I didn’t have to listen to the roar of the wind. Here at Base Camp it manifests itself in the form tent canvas bashing against our