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Moe Al Thani | 2016 May
First Qatari man to summit Mount Everest and to climb the Seven Summits.
First Qatari, Mount Everest, Entrepreneur, Qatar's royal family, Mountaineer, Brand ambassador for Reach Out To Asia, Founder of musafir.com, Sharjah Paintball Park, Grab n’ Go, Al Nawras Hospitality, Tamween Catering
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May 2016

23 May
10

The Toilet Situation

Moe Al Thani   |   7Summits, Denali   |   No comment

The Toilet Situation is a tricky one, where number 1 and number 2 can’t be mixed. Each one has a designated area. All human waste must be carried off the mountain, that means we carry our own shit. There are also certain locations to dump number 1.

Doing number one: the best discovery is the pee bottle. where you do not have to sneak out of your warm sleeping bag in the middle of the night when the temperature is -30c. Sharing a tent makes everything tricky where you have to tell your tent mate to turn around.
After doing your business you have a warm bottle in your sleeping bag, if you leave it out of your sleeping bag you will wake up with a frozen pee bottle which is not so much fun to melt. In the morning we have to empty the pee bottle in designated areas in each camp.

Doing number 2: let’s say it’s a toilet with a view and very well ventilated. It’s a bucket with a plastic bag inside that is shared by the whole camp. If you are not the lucky first one then you are up for a smelly surprise when lifting the seat cover. When the weather is cold then everything is frozen, when the sun comes up so does the smells. We operate at the 30s rule, do your business in 10s and clean up in 20s you don’t want frostbites on your cheeks.

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23 May
10

Making our selves home

Moe Al Thani   |   7Summits   |   No comment

Our day started, with bad news of a storm coming in with high winds. The park rangers came and warned us that we need to secure our camp.

Before we did we made some pancakes to lift up our spirits before the hard work begun. We shoveled tons of snow digging trenches. We made 2m high walls from ice blocks to protect our tents from the high wind coming. He expected winds might reach 100km/hr which is no joke.

The group all worked together making our camp the best fortified camp in camp 3. We are now safe in our tents knowing that if shit hits the fan we will be ready.

Looks like we will have a few bad weather days we have no option but to stay put and be optimistic. Today we saw many teams quitting and heading down as they are running out of supplies.

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22 May
43

camp 3 becoming home

Moe Al Thani   |   7Summits   |   1 Comment

We had a big storm yesterday, wind blowing at 65km/hr plus snowing heavily all day. We had to dig up the snow around our tents every few hours plus we built snow walls protecting our selves and tents from the winds.

At camp 3 it’s a waiting game, from here we cache at 5,200m then move to camp 4 before attempting the summit. But we need good weather before we can move ahead.

Today the weather settled so we went down to grab our cache 200m below. It took us 3hrs round trip. We made it in very good time as we acclimatized. We then also fixed up our camp as it got beaten up by the storm. So happy got our stash we ran out of food last night.

We had pizza for lunch today, was only a slice but reminds you of the world. Over here we are striped from all the luxuries in life. I can even remember how many days I’m here or showered!

If the weather is good we will go up tomorrow up the head wall to the top of the lines at 5,000m.

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20 May
47

Camp 3

Moe Al Thani   |   7Summits   |   1 Comment

Our day started at 7:00am with a cup of coffee and again grilled cheese bagel with turkey bacon. Then quickly packed our gear into the bags and sledges loaded them with about 30kgs and headed up the same route as yesterday. Passing the windy corner was an experience, never saw that much wind. The weather was way colder today, was wearing my mitts the whole time.

We reached camp 3 in 5:20hrs which was very fast, but we still have half of our gear an hour below so we will have to grab them tomorrow.

It took us a few hours to set up our camp, we started from zero so took us longer then usual. Plus we are at 4,500m which makes it much harder. After we settled we had amazing burgers for dinner, we also heard the forecast where it is expected to be -25c tonight.

Pics are of my tent at 4,500m, the team, and the amazing burger we had.

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19 May
31

cached at 4,300m

Moe Al Thani   |   7Summits   |   1 Comment

Today we woke up at 8:30am as it was very cold, we wait until the sun hits the tent to get up. After breakfast we headed up again to the cache point 200m above picked up the gear and food and took them up squirrel hill and motorcycle hill and then passed the windy corner where we cached them again at 4,300m. We carried heavy loads today it took us 4.5hrs to reach the cache point and 1.5hrs back to Camp 2. We are all exhausted, a long day but we spent. If the weather sticks we will head to Camp 3 tomorrow carrying the rest of the gear.

The weather here flips and is unpredictable, and when it’s cold it’s reaaaally cold. I didn’t feel my fingers for a while when we first started until I warmed up.

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