Skills Practice on the Khumbu Glacier
Time for some climbing skills practice at EBC. Terray recaps the day:
Hi, this is Terray calling in for the 2021 Madison Mountaineering Mount Everest expedition. It’s April 15th.
Today we had our first day of skills practice down on the ice pyramids of the Khumbu Glacier just below our base camp. We practiced descending fixed-lines and repelling. We’ll have two more days of skills practice before we head on up to Camps I and II.
The weather was great today – we seem to be in a pattern of beautiful sunny skies in the morning which last until mid-afternoon and then we had a light snow fall. And now it’s just slightly overcast and the team is relaxing after dinner watching The Blues Brothers.
So, in other news, our Island Peak climber successfully summited the mountian today. He had trekked with us to base camp and then decended back down the Khumbu Valley, turned left at Dingboche and headed up to Island Peak. It seems like he had a good climb with one of our guides.
So all is well and we’ll be in touch. Bye!
Sirdar Aang Purba enjoying the icefall skills building
Skills building exercise in the Khumbu Icefall
A grinning Mark P building his fixed-line skills
Skills building exercise in the Khumbu Icefall
Skills building exercise in the Khumbu Icefall
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