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Watching this video gives you a strong impression of the long hard slog that Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie went through to get to Camp 2.
The video shows Team Marie Curie trekking through the blinding white and searing heat of the Western Cwm. The trek from Camp 1 to Camp 2 is relentless [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie have safely arrived at Camp 1 for the second time, after leaving Base Camp this morning.
They are in their tents preparing hot drinks and food before sleep at sundown, preparing themselves to set off towards Camp 2 tomorrow.
The images above are of Base Camp and Team Marie Curie’s [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie have stepped back into Base Camp after their first night at Camp 1.
The team left Base Camp at 5am on Sunday April 20 and began the difficult climb up through the Khumbu Icefall towards Camp 1.
The challenging job of fixing the ropes en route to the summit, and [...]
In this video, Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks about the trek to Camp 1. Perhaps unexpectedly, it is not the cold that concerns him most, it is the extreme heat they will face on the Western Cwm.
The Western Cwm, often called the ‘Valley of Silence’, is a glacial valley at the foot of the Lhotse Face [...]
Team Marie Curie set off to Camp 1 yesterday in the next phase of the acclimatisation process.
In this video post, Kenton Cool talks about this part of the attempt to summit Everest.
At 4.30am this morning, Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie emerged from their tents to begin their first climb up to Camp 1. The nightly boom of avalanches and the eerie cracks of the glacier were joined by the sound of tent zips opening and boots crunching on the glacial rubble as the team [...]
