GreatOutdoors.com: inspire, equip, connect and GOCreates a all nodes RSS feedBack in Kathmandu- May 31, 2008 GreatOutdoors this is Dave Hahn, this morning at 4 a.m., myself and Mark Tucker and Ang Jangbu Sherpa got up in Phakding, little village down by the river, and boy, one night at that low altitude with the humidity of the river flowing by, pretty much all the damage that was done to my throat and upper respiratory system by the oxygen bottles that we use, that really super dry oxygen breathing for three or four days, all that damage was erased and woke up without any cough or anything like...http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0531/back-in-kathmandu All the Way Down to Phakding, Lukla Tomorrow- May 30, 2008 GreatOutdoors, this is Dave Hahn and I'm calling you from Phakding, which is down below Namche, about halfway between Namche and Lukla, where we hope to fly out. We're spending the night here in Phakding, down by the river, pretty comfortable way down here, much warmer, and we're going to get up quite early tomorrow morning and finish the two hour walk to Lukla and hope for our flight to Kahtmandu and our exit from the mountains. Today was a pretty good day, we walked all the way from...http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0530/all-the-way-down-to-phakding-lukla-tomorrow Everest Season Ends: Dave Calls from Pangboche on the Trek Out- May 29, 2008 Hey this is Dave Hahn, and I'm calling from Pangboche, one of the villages we came through on the way in about 2 months ago. At 13,000 feet it's roughly 16,000 feet less than we were two days ago. We're dropping fast. We left Base Camp this morning, base camp was coming down around us, Everest season is over, and mass exodus, everybody is heading down valley. I walked with Jangbu and Mark Tucker down valley today, and Nicky and Greg Messner walked together to Pheriche, the village just before..http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0529/everest-season-ends-dave-calls-from-pangboc... Last Night at Base Camp- May 28, 2008 Mark Tucker here at what should be my last night at Base Camp. Nicky and Dave made it down for brunch today and after breakfast tomorrow they too will start toward Kathmandu. Minutes ago, our last two loads of equipment arrived off the upper mountain. . . . and Pertemba started at Camp II today and went up to the South Col and returned to base camp They reported it quite windy up top today, a lucky weather window yesterday. Man those guys are tough. You can imagine about 50 days ago already...http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0528/last-night-at-base-camp Starting the Last Trip Through the Icefall- May 28, 2008 GreatOutdoors, this is Dave Hahn, and I'm still at Advance Base Camp. We hit the summit yesterday morning, we came down here to ABC, 21,300, now it's early morning, before six in the morning at least and we're going to head down through the Icefall one more time and head to base camp and get to where life gets a little more comfortable. What I didn't really realize was going on at the same time, our Sherpa team has been pulling our whole expedition down the mountain. In fact, by today, they...http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0527/starting-the-last-trip-through-the-icefall Dave Hahn Back at Advance Base After His Tenth Everest Summit- May 27, 2008 Editor's Note: GreatOutdoors.com Everest correspondent Dave Hahn became the only non-Sherpa climber to reach double digits in terms of the number of times to the top of Everest. His climb yesterday with Nicky Messner and Samduk Dorje was his tenth trip to the top of the highest mountain on earth, more than any other Westerner. Hey, this is Dave Hahn and I'm back down at Advance Base Camp. Nicky and Samduk, myself, we summitted this morning around 7 or 7:30, 7:30 is probably more like it. And.http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0527/dave-hahn-back-at-advance-base-after-his-te... Summit Climbers Almost down to South Col- May 27, 2008 Namaste! Well the team upstairs are just about at the South Col, so we'll call em . . .in and we'll see if they push on down to Camp II depending on how they are feeling. It's about 10:50 in the morning here right now, so plenty of time if they are feeling up for it, so we're . . . .work out . . . still perfect, so what a fantastic way to finish off this expedition, I'll tell you that. so thanks again for clicking on us.http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0526/summit-climbers-almost-down-to-south-col Summit Transmission- May 27, 2008 Radio relay, largely unintelligible.http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0526/summit-transmission Dave and Nicky on Top, with the Crew- May 27, 2008 There has to be a bettrer way, but this is what weve got going right now. . . Dave please repeat one more time. . . And what time is this Dave. . . 7:26, Dave Hahn, Nicky and the rest of the crew, all four on top. . . . Dave on top with the crew. Folowed by . . .http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0526/dave-and-nicky-on-top-with-the-crew No Poetry this Time- May 27, 2008 Well I'm trying it again: I got a one minute out, that was about 47 seconds ago, there is sort of a time warp about 29,000 feet that you run into and they are in it right now. Hopefully I can turn this phone over to Dave off the radio . . . but we'll try it. And I won't do any poetry to fill in time here, somebody mentioned I should have been Os when I tried my wit at that. Here it is . . . copy that Dave. Well . . .so I'm going to do another call back.http://www.greatoutdoors.com/everest-2008/0526/no-poetry-this-time |