Summit Journal Chat

Apparently,you can chew gum in Singapore now, but only for medicinal purposes. (Huh?) I think you need a script to buy it.
Rough luck, BBob.
Flames win again tonight, 2 wins away from the Stanley Cup !

Hey - I heard you could chew gum again in Singapore now.

It happened near Evergreen. The tire did not quite shred completely but it had a ragged hole in the side. I was lucky because it was in the rear. I was back up there again today - but not to climb. I went to Frisco and Silverthorne to see my niece graduate. It was snow on the divide (at the Eisenhower Tunnel) on my retun later in the afternoon.

Too bad, BBob. I hope it happened at that wonderful overlook outside of Denver where the road drops away to show that awesome view of the front range. Gosh, it's been so long since I saw that.

Best regards,
Rose

// posted by rose @ 4:20 PM

let me try this publishing thing again.

Thanks GBS, the cloud formations over Denali were fascinating, constantly changing.

Did your whole tire shred, Bob? At what speed? Doesn't sound like the kind of adventure you had in mind.

GBS - Rose asked me if I knew that EV was going to climb Grays and suggested that I guide him. I reported that Tim was coming out here to climb Grays with me - and thus he was a sucker. I think that was the bases for the comment. As it turns out I might be able to climb Grays with EV - I just have to be rich and outbid other climbers who may want to climb with him more. I may just volunteer to help with the event. Anyway, today would have been my 93rd climb of the Grays had it not been for my tire blowout on the Interstate (I70) at 5:00am this morning.

Tim - I liked this one:
562052-R1-E018.jpg Posted by Tim on 5/28/2004, 21KB - really very nice
Why the barb for EV?

BBob, will that training include Longs???

Hi Jean, where's Longs?

Nothing of mine is publishing, so I'm going to try and piggy-back one on Jean's (hope you don't mind).

yeah, why guide EV when you can guide ... hmmm, a sucker, ay?

b&w slides have arrived, haven't looked at them properly, i don't think these jpegs do them justice. Have loaded a few, the rest will have to wait.

http://groups.msn.com/MountainPhotoJournal/alaska.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=113


Now that I have all my film developed, quite obvious that there will be no slide show for this trip--I was too task loaded to get my camera out except at base camp and on the plane--I didn't even get a decent shot of the Moose's Tooth.

Have a good weekend.

For your Memorial Day weekend reading (USA) --

a sneak peak if you haven't already gotten your copy of Dave's book, Against Giants. http://www.everest.org.sg/news/news02.html

Dave probably thinks we've all found this by surfing his website ;-)

GBS - The Three Sisters offer a variety of routes and options, however because they all sit below 10,000 feet they are not that important.

However, iif yo get a chance to view the hilarious "Sister Extreme" from last year's Banff Festival you will see that they play an important role in the self mockery of the mountaineering genre.

how do the three sisters near Banff rate with climbers - do they go there?

Thanks Rose - for the tip about EV and his climb - I may try to do the climb or volunteer

It look like I may have suckered Tim into coming out to CO to climb Gray and/or Torreys in July as a warmup to his climbing in Peru. He also plans some additional training out here before our climb.

M&I update:
Apparently the wind has blown a lot of the snow off the upper part of the mountain and the ENews crew is back up searching. So I guess there is still a chance of finding something this year. I don't think the North side has the same deadline of May 30 as does the Nepal side, but I am not sure.

Regards,
Rose

Thanks Rose - What an idiot - I didn't even notice that - geez

HI, It's me again. There is a nice story remembering Rob Hall (his child is now 8) on MountEverest.net (see link to the right). Although lot of groups have left Everest, the Adventure Consultants group is still on their summit push. :-)

Best regards,
Rose

Hi BBob,
Just click EV's link on the right side of this page. It will take you to his site.

The Grey's climb is in his itinerary. I hope you will be around. I think you should be his guide. :-)

Best regards,
Rose

Rose - No, I didn't know that - where did you hear that? EV is planning to climb it? When? I had heard from my friends who went to E base camp that EV had been planning to go to Annapurna and used E as an acclimbitization climb. So, he waiting now due to snow? What's the address of his site.

Hi Dave,
I believe that some of the guys on the Russian team were on the team that finally climbed Lhotse middle a couple of years ago. Yes, my knowledge is certainly limited but I have to agree that the Russian climbers seem to be very tough.

Regards,
Rose

Hi again,
Just checked EV's site and it seems that he has put off Anapurna until next year. I think there is quite a bit of snow there now but I couldn't find when that decision was made.

BBob, did you notice that EV with be climbing Greys peak in August?

Regards,
Rose

Rose: the Russian team includes my friend Yuri Ermachek - a phenomenal climber I got to know in 2000 in the Tien Shan, He was on the 3000m high Makalu West Face team in 97 when they cracked the 'last' great problem, and also climbed Everest in 2002 ( north ridge ). Like most Russians, humble, tough as nails and a great singer once the guitar is found. If the whol eteam is like him, they'll do it, but maybe at the cost of a life, as is traditional with many extreme projects. These guys aren t often the most technical climbers but they have an enormous amount of toughness. In 2000, he went with 2 others to climb the 3000m high north face of Kan Tengri on some chocolate, dried fruit and soup as supplies, and they departed a day after they were cauht in an avalanche (! )

I think this page should have a preamble paragraph stating our origins as well as a caveat regarding the ' atmosphere' here in geenral which is less Everest focused, though we have been known to stay on topic for w hile. WHo's in charge of making changes on the page? :-)

Hi Everyone,
Well, a lot of snow on Everest these days suggesting that any searches planned for SI or the camera are either over or are not to be this year.

Summit pushes still on however, with an increasing list of dead or missing. Some references made to climbers "who don't even know how to put on crampons" - thought we had heard the last of that one but I guess not. Up until about a week ago I thought we might have a good year with no deaths. (sigh).

The Russian North face crew is still at it, although they seem to be a very seasoned team. Hopefully they will make it to the top and back down again safely.

Best regards,
Rose

Tim -

WOW - were you hanging out of an open window for the first photograph? It is great.
The last one was hard to see the two houses - two year wait for a hut? That is interesting - sounds like a real estate opportunity waiting up there.

Here is a site where you can see some of the Banff Centre:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/communications/images/general/default.asp

haven't received my b&w slides yet, but posted a few color shots at my website. You can take a look at:

http://groups.msn.com/MountainPhotoJournal/alaska.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=111

I have a rock from Everest Base Camp (South Side). I went to see a slide show of my friends trek with Mountain Madness and they gave me a rock that they had picked up from Base Camp. I guess its no big deal but it seems like it to me for some reason. I guess its the closest I've ever come to the place. Great slide show. They mentioned the 4 deaths which I hadn't heard about.

GBS - I wouldn't mind see that architecture show.

Gee - Tim's putting away his diving stuff.

Dave - Thanks, I like you new button to the blog. But I couldn't find your Fuji story.

I did see T The V a while back and thought it was great.

I will have to see it sometime.
Too bad those two on Rainier did not have such good luck.

Excellent! Excellent! Excellent! I finally made it to see "Touching The Void", somehow thinking that I'd be underwhelmed, but was gladly mistaken. This film is truly in a class by itself. The straightforward, unembellished account of Yates' and Simpson's harrowing adventure is powerful and clean and I felt like I needed to take my crampons off before leaving the theater.