What day do you think Max will Summit

Thursday, May 20, 2010



Hi Again, Walid here. I went on Google Earth and found some 3d renditions of the mountain and rotated them so that we can better see the route that the team is taking. The red dots are camps, with the lowest being the North Col, and then 7800M, 8200M and Summit (they obviously don't camp on the summit, though it has been done once!) the green line is their climbing route. The yellow line is the border between Tibet (China) and Nepal. On the right side of the photo you can see the Western Cwm, which is the big valley that the South side climbers use. You can also see from the photo that they are climbing up a defined ridge (North Ridge) until they reach an even more defined ridge (Northeast ridge) which will lead them to the summit. This side of the mountain is hard to get lost on, though not impossible. The bottom corner of the photo doesn't quite show ABC but if you keep going in that direction you will get there.

For those of you who do not have Google Eart I highly recommend down loading it. It is some amazing technology and can provide so much info.

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