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Expedition Report From Nepal - Wednesday 12 April 2000 Kangchenjunga Base Camp
We made a slow start to the day, rising at about 0730. Some of the team went to help fix some ropes to make the climb into the Base Camp easier for the porters ñ who had returned to retrieve the loads they dumped the previous evening. We also responded to a request for assistance from an Indian Expedition (Indo Tibet Border Police) who had a sick member who needed evacuation from the mountain by helicopter.
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Todays picture shows the early part of the route
on the South West Face of Kangchenjunga, from
Base Camp at 5300 metres towards "the Hump"
at 6250 metres. The route goes up the right hand
side of the obvious ice cliff. We will start up this
route on Friday 14 Apr. |
We lent them our stretcher to evacuate the man who was taken off about 3 hrs later. The rest of the day has been spent acclimatising, sorting out our own tents and the communal tents, sorting out food and equipment for higher up the mountain and reconnoitring the route up to Camp 1 with binoculars etc.
The view from Base Camp is spectacular with mountains towering up to 8000 metres high all around us. We have perfect views of the South West Face of our mountain and of the Nepalese mountains Kangbachen (7858m) and Jannu (7710m) and on the Nepal / Sikkim border Talung Peak (7035m) and the Kabru Peaks all of which are above 7000m.
Steve Jackson
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