Saturday, April 24, 2004
Hi Bruce,
It's a deal. Actually I have some other contacts from the halcyon days of the Mountain Zone forum that help me to keep up with the M&I story. I have heard stories about ENews but my only experience was being blocked from their forum. (We all know what a rabble rouser I am.) Graham Hoyland and Tom Holzel were involved with the ENews expedition. But Graham is over there with a BBC crew, so there seems to be a parting of the ways. I think Holzel still involved but I think only in an advisory capacity. But in any event, the ENews crew- whoever they are- has had good information - at least as good as anyone. The silence from IMG is deafening. I thought they were going to have a northside expedition with Jake Norton leading a group to the North Col, but if they are there they are below the radar screen - no one seems to be covering them. So I don't know if they are over there or not. Both Eric and Jochen seem to have left M&I behind, but with all the aggravation they have have had to put up with from the Brits, I don't blame them. Maybe they wanted to keep a low profile because they would have to put up with a lot of unwelcome attention even if they had abandoned the search in favor of concentrating on the positive experience of their clients. I have heard that Dave Hahn is over there but in what capacity I do not know. Part of me keeps hoping that they are going to do a very quiet, limited search based upon ideas that have developed over the last couple of years, but that is the purest speculation on my part. But certainly Graham Hoyland and ENews will be acting on good information. We'll see if anything turnes up.
But from a pure mountaineering perspective I would think that the Russian expedition trying a new route goihg straight up Everest's North face would be the most fascinating. These are the many of the same group that climbed Lhotes Middle a couple of years back. I have been surprised that with all the complaints about the hordes climbing Everest these days more people aren't trying new or rarely traveled routes.
Regards,
Rose
It's a deal. Actually I have some other contacts from the halcyon days of the Mountain Zone forum that help me to keep up with the M&I story. I have heard stories about ENews but my only experience was being blocked from their forum. (We all know what a rabble rouser I am.) Graham Hoyland and Tom Holzel were involved with the ENews expedition. But Graham is over there with a BBC crew, so there seems to be a parting of the ways. I think Holzel still involved but I think only in an advisory capacity. But in any event, the ENews crew- whoever they are- has had good information - at least as good as anyone. The silence from IMG is deafening. I thought they were going to have a northside expedition with Jake Norton leading a group to the North Col, but if they are there they are below the radar screen - no one seems to be covering them. So I don't know if they are over there or not. Both Eric and Jochen seem to have left M&I behind, but with all the aggravation they have have had to put up with from the Brits, I don't blame them. Maybe they wanted to keep a low profile because they would have to put up with a lot of unwelcome attention even if they had abandoned the search in favor of concentrating on the positive experience of their clients. I have heard that Dave Hahn is over there but in what capacity I do not know. Part of me keeps hoping that they are going to do a very quiet, limited search based upon ideas that have developed over the last couple of years, but that is the purest speculation on my part. But certainly Graham Hoyland and ENews will be acting on good information. We'll see if anything turnes up.
But from a pure mountaineering perspective I would think that the Russian expedition trying a new route goihg straight up Everest's North face would be the most fascinating. These are the many of the same group that climbed Lhotes Middle a couple of years back. I have been surprised that with all the complaints about the hordes climbing Everest these days more people aren't trying new or rarely traveled routes.
Regards,
Rose
