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Having abandoned his summit attempt due to exhaustion Sir Ranulph Fiennes is now heading down to Base Camp.
At 12.45am (Nepalese Time) this morning Sir Ranulph Fiennes arrived back at the South Col suffering from extreme exhaustion. He left Camp 4 to head down the mountain this morning.
At 1.30pm Sir Ranulph radioed down to base camp [...]
Team Marie Curie arrived at Camp 2 yesterday after a long, hard slog though the increasingly dangerous Khumbu Icefall.
Sir Ranulph and Team Marie Curie left Base Camp at 4am in a bid to beat the debilitating sun in the Western Cwm. The downside of leaving early is that the cold exacerbates the notorious Khumbu cough.
Today [...]
This video is part 2 of Kenton Cool’s description of the route that Team Marie Curie will take when they make the attempt to reach the summit.
For the first part of the interview please watch part 1 in the previous news post.
In this video, which was filmed when Team Marie Curie were previously at Camp 2, Kenton Cool describes the route that the team will take when they make the attempt to reach the summit.
You can see in the distance the height of the climb and Kenton explains how you can even see last year’s climbers’ [...]
This morning, for the first time since April 28, Team Marie Curie are back on Everest.
They woke at 3.30am for breakfast and set off at 4am. Still dark; the twinkling headtorches of the Sherpas could be seen bobbing up the Icefall. Sherpas in Team Marie Curie’s camp lit juniper for good luck before setting off.
Dawn [...]
This toilet at Camp 2 is not a place to linger. It sits surrounded by 5ft square blocks at the bottom of a huge ice cliff on the South Summit face.
The ice cliff is constantly collapsing, spitting out huge boulders that gun straight for this dunny. Use it at your peril – or make like [...]
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 [...]
During his last trip to Camp 2 Sir Ranulph suffered from severe exhaustion due to lack of sleep. Sir Ranulph said: “I got pretty much ruined, or that is how I felt, by this filthy cough. I’m now on penicillin and the doc has said to go down the valley would be very beneficial to [...]
During his last trip to Camp 2, Sir Ranulph was filmed talking about the inhospitable environment that the team experienced and the difficulty of the ascent and of making any progress.
Here are some images of Sir Ranulph from the acclimatisation trip to Camp 2.
You can see the precarious ladders that are placed by the Sherpa Ice Doctors, enabling the climbers to take the safest path up the mountain.
