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| My next Challenge... Everest ยป |
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| A long Way to the Top... |
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My intention is to climb the North Col route (in yellow on the picture to the left). The North Col was discovered by George Mallory while searching for possible routes to the summit of Mount Everest during the first British reconnaissance of the Everest region in 1921. On 8 June 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made an attempt on the summit via the North Col/North Ridge/Northeast Ridge route from which they never returned. On 1 May 1999 the Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition found Mallory's body on the North Face in a snow basin below and to the west of the traditional site of Camp VI. |
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| The Plan - The North Col |
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| The North Col route begins from the north side of Everest in Tibet. It is a long approach from Base Camp to the summit. Technically, it is more challenging than the South side but does not have the ice fall danger. One of appealing aspects of Everest North Ridge route is that it offers a great view of Everest on virtually the whole route from the base camp. |
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| Fur Geljen Sherpa |
 Fur Geljen Sherpa is the Managing Director of World Records Expeditions and he does excellent work mostly behind the scene. He is the one who organizes and manages the complicated logistics for this long expedition. Without him, our material and food would never make it to Tibet and back. Beside his operation job, he also works as a mountain guide in Nepal and Tibet |
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| Ang Pasang Sherpa |
 Ang Pasang Sherpa is an experienced high altitude Sherpa and mountain guide. He has attended many German, Swiss, British, and American expeditions as a climbing Sherpa and was also one of the leading Sherpas during the Mount Everest climb with the Team Jordan 2010. He has summited Everest twice. |
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| Pasang Karma Sherpa |
 Pasang Karma Sherpa is also a very experienced high altitude Sherpa. He has attended several British, American and Indian expeditions as a climbing Sherpa and has summited Everest six times. |
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| Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa |
 Last year I was on the Everest north side with Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa, Chairman of World Records Expeditions and Treks Pvt. Ltd. (WRET) and Mountain Guide Holding Certificate of Wilderness first Responder. Beside his 2003 Everest speed ascent world record (10 hrs 56 min and 46 sec), Lhakpa has summited Everest 14 times. Unfortunately, we had to turn back at 8,600m/28,380ft.
I strongly believe that we should create more awareness of the fact that Sherpa guides and Sherpa climbers receive the recognition they deserve for their extraordinary work on the mountain. Until now, the recognition and publicity went mostly to foreign guides and climbers in the West. |
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