My Everest Expedition: Sandy Pittman
Sandy Pittman
My Everest expedition
April 1: Today is the first day of being on Mt. Everest. I’m on the helicopter on my way to the place where we must start walking to Everest. It’s a beautiful view from up here. They’ve assigned us to our groups already. I’m in Fischer’s group. I’ve met some of my teammates like Charlotte Fox, Lene Gammelgaard, and three of our guides. Everyone seems quite nice. I’ve packed about everything warm of mine for the trip. It will be really cold up on Everest. We’re about to get out of the helicopter and start walking to base camp. It will be about a week and a half walk to get there.
April 10: We’ve reached base camp approximately 10 days after our starting time from the helicopter. There are many things we must do to set up camp, like collect heavy rocks and set up the whole camp. Many people are “too tired” to work because of our 10 day hike even though we have had many times to rest over night from staying at different places in Nepal; but since we have such strong teams and leaders, everyone is forced to work. Today will be a long day…I can already tell.
May 8: Today is the day we start to climb to camp 2. Lopsang has offered to short-rope me up to camp to but I declined the offer. Yet as we hit about ¼ of the way up to camp 2, I started to get a little sick, so I took lopsang up on his offer. I know probably many people are looking at me bad for doing so, especially since Lopsang and I are falling behind, I don’t mind that they don’t agree with my decision. Despite the beautiful features of the mountain, its freezing on this mountain. A couple of us are getting frost bite on our faces. Good thing we only have a little ways to go.
May 9: We have reached the South Col, which is a launching pad for the summit assault. Because the storm is getting worse, its 15 degrees below zero. It’s become pitch black at nights so we can’t see without our flashlights when we climb. A few people have gone missing so
My Everest expedition
April 1: Today is the first day of being on Mt. Everest. I’m on the helicopter on my way to the place where we must start walking to Everest. It’s a beautiful view from up here. They’ve assigned us to our groups already. I’m in Fischer’s group. I’ve met some of my teammates like Charlotte Fox, Lene Gammelgaard, and three of our guides. Everyone seems quite nice. I’ve packed about everything warm of mine for the trip. It will be really cold up on Everest. We’re about to get out of the helicopter and start walking to base camp. It will be about a week and a half walk to get there.
April 10: We’ve reached base camp approximately 10 days after our starting time from the helicopter. There are many things we must do to set up camp, like collect heavy rocks and set up the whole camp. Many people are “too tired” to work because of our 10 day hike even though we have had many times to rest over night from staying at different places in Nepal; but since we have such strong teams and leaders, everyone is forced to work. Today will be a long day…I can already tell.
May 8: Today is the day we start to climb to camp 2. Lopsang has offered to short-rope me up to camp to but I declined the offer. Yet as we hit about ¼ of the way up to camp 2, I started to get a little sick, so I took lopsang up on his offer. I know probably many people are looking at me bad for doing so, especially since Lopsang and I are falling behind, I don’t mind that they don’t agree with my decision. Despite the beautiful features of the mountain, its freezing on this mountain. A couple of us are getting frost bite on our faces. Good thing we only have a little ways to go.
May 9: We have reached the South Col, which is a launching pad for the summit assault. Because the storm is getting worse, its 15 degrees below zero. It’s become pitch black at nights so we can’t see without our flashlights when we climb. A few people have gone missing so