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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 [...]
Team Marie Curie is accompanied by Sherpas for their expedition to the summit of Everest. The Sherpa – ‘eastern people’ – live in the Khumbu Valley, the national park surrounding Everest and originate from Eastern Tibet.
Sherpas are employed by Everest mountaineers as guides and double up as porters, carrying some of the supplies and heavier [...]
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 [...]
The world’s highest mountain has today been officially closed. The Nepalese side of Everest has been closed for two days, May 1 and May 2, to allow the Olympic flame to reach the summit of the mountain – from the Chinese side.
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie have headed down the valley to Pengboche [...]
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.
From a distance, Everest Base Camp looks like a handful of brightly coloured Quality Streets that have been thrown into an overwhelming pile of rubble at the bottom of a huge tumbling cacophony of exploded ice towers.
As each laboured step brings you closer, the ‘Quality Streets’ become hundreds of brightly coloured tents nestled amongst the [...]
Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Team Marie Curie have arrived back in Base Camp after a three night trip to Camp 2.
The acclimatisation trip proved to be a tough one. Because of the altitude, even completing the simplest of tasks, like bending over to pick something up, leaves you out of breath. Many climbers develop what [...]
Safety on Everest is of paramount importance for every climber tackling the mountain. Like other teams, Team Marie Curie uses radios to stay in constant contact with the radio base station at Base Camp.
Team Marie Curie is moving as a tight knit unit up the mountain. While climbing through the Icefall there are two radios, [...]
