Blog

The Final Push

The time has come for our summit push, tomorrow early morning the team will be heading up directly to camp 2. I will be a long day crossing the Khumbu Ice fall and then cross the Western Cwm.

Landing at base camp, or home for me for the last few weeks was great. Being in Namche for a few days gave us a lot of energy but at the same time took our mind away from the summit a bit especially with all the perks we got there. Now at base camp we have the summit in sight and can not wait to actually start the push.

Yesterday we had our oxygen school, tried our masks, put on our cylinders, being a scuba diver it feels somewhat the same technique. I felt everything is happening so fast after that. All the summit talks, what to wear, what to bring what to eat etc.…

We have a preferred summit day of the 21st depending on weather and crowd. By pushing for the summit tomorrow morning we have a few options of summit days. We have 21-23 as possible summit days, we will take it day by day and decide when to shoot.

Our proposed itinerary for the next few days is as follows: We move to camp2 early in the morning, and then spend a rest day in camp2. Then move to camp3 and camp4, spend a rest day at camp4 on oxygen before pushing for the summit on the night of the 20th reaching the summit on the 21st inshala.

I will be audio blogging as much as I can, depending on the way I feel and the weather. On the other hand my good friend Adam Sobel will be updating my blog from base camp during the summit push. He will be updating every 3hrs or so to keep you all posted with our updates on the mountain.