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|  04/04/09 |  Kay Mitchell
| Great Scott!
Caudwell Xtreme Everest wish to congratulate Mike and Denny Grocott on the birth of their first child - Scott Dylan.
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| | 03/09/08 | Kay Mitchell
| Xtreme excitement!
Friends of Caudwell Xtreme Everest may feel that the lack of changes on this website means that not much is happening. Happily that is not the case.
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| | 03/04/08 | Kay Mitchell
| Bambino Mackenney
We have had some great news this week. Mac Mackenney, our Expedition Manager, and his partner, Lisa, have had a new addition to the family.
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| | 11/12/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Royal Geographical Lecture
I have been spending the last couple of weeks finalising preparations for the Caudwell Xtreme Everest lecture at the Royal Geographical Society. The lecture, in conjunction with Linde Gas Therapeutics and BOC Medical, took place last week.
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| | 12/10/07 | Nigel Hart
| “Not how high……but who with”
I thought my CXE blogging days were over but seeing the Horizon programmes has brought many wonderful memories flooding back – I feel compelled to post just one last blog.
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| | 12/10/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Reflections
It has been a bit of a bizarre two weeks. A number of members of the core team went to Aviemore in Scotland last week to the World Wilderness Medicine conference.
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| | 15/09/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Insomnia!
This week saw Dan, Paula and myself at a Faithless concert in Brixton. We were dancing like lunatics to the track Insomnia.
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| | 03/08/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Nostalgia
I have been working on the first Caudwell Xtreme Everest reunion this week, and it has inspired me to reread a lot of the messages that people sent whilst we were out in Nepal.
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| | 03/08/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Footnote to Nostalgia blog
Radio 4 will feature a segment from this week's documentary about Caudwell Xtreme Everest in its Sunday evening programme "Pick of the Week" - 18.15 to 19.00, 5th August.
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| | 20/07/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Radio 4
It is 18.45 and I am still in the office in Archway. This is not because I am working overtime again, but because I have been using the scanner to help with my MSc.
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| 28/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Archway, London
I am back in the office, and trying to get used to living in London again. Having spent so much time looking forward to coming back to the UK, I am now missing Nepal, and all the people we spent time with out there. There is no pleasing some people!
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| 23/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Doha
I lied in my last blog. I have managed to get online in Doha airport, whilst waiting for our connecting flight to London.
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| 22/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Good News
Mac has returned with the last of our Sherpa team from Lukla. All the equipment is finally off the mountain, and we can get sorted for leaving for the UK.
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| 21/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Escape?
Mac is still in Lukla. Yet again the Caudwell Xtreme Everest logisitics team are being delayed by circumstances beyond their control.
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| 16/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Clean!
I am back in the Summit Hotel in Kathmandu, and revelling in the ability to feel clean every single day!
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| 09/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Kay's blog
The team are spread out over the Khumbu valley. Many are in Lukla hoping to fly to Kathmandu tomorrow. I am still in Namche with approximately 15 others, and Mac is in Pheriche.
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| 02/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Potential for Skipping!
Things appear to be going well with the packing, and Mike Grocott announced tonight at dinner that if they continue to go well, we might be able to leave on Monday!
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| 01/06/07 | Callan Stroud
| Looking to the future
I’m writing this in the lab, where our last trekker tests are currently underway. In three days the lab staff, including myself, will head down to Dingboche, and from there will launch our attempt on Island Peak.
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| | 28/05/07 | Summit Team
| It's all over?
It’s over and we are back, members and Sherpas. Well…the Sherpas are all down each night in base camp, but return to the mountain to camp 1 to retrieve all the equipment for the next few days.
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| | 28/05/07 | Nigel Hart
| Weak as a Kitten…
The day before yesterday we (the summit team) gathered at the bottom of the Khumbu ice fall and walked in to camp together.
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| | 27/05/07 | Chris Imray
| Realising an Xtreme dream
After climbing through the night, the red glow of dawn filled the sky over Makalu. With each breathless step, we had climbed higher until we crested the South Summit; beyond lay the Hilary Step and the summit of Everest.
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| | 27/05/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Testing Trek M
This is the last day of testing of trek teams for our Everest Base Camp staff. Trek M are working very hard on our behalf, in beautiful sunshine, which it makes it very warm in the laboratory tent.
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| | 23/05/07 | Liesl Wandrag
| Liesl's one and only blog!
The waiting game has started for all of us here at Base Camp. The radio static becomes the most important sound you perceive as you wait for bits of information to filter through from the climbers up the mountain.
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| 21/05/07 | Namche Laboratory
| The Last Namche Blog…
Team Namche bade farewell to the final up-going trekking group today. Our testing here is now complete; none of us can believe how fast it has all gone!
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| | 20/05/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Water Carriers
The Caudwell Xtreme Everest Base Camp Lab staff have been constantly amazed at the hard work of our cook team.
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| | 17/05/07 | Nigel Hart
| Time to go….!
Yesterday we said farewell to most of the IMAX team. We still have Michael Brown here (a very experienced mountain film-maker and a previous Everest summiteer) who will be filming us for IMAX on our summit bid.
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| | 17/05/07 | Patrick Doyle
| The Final Push?
Yes…it is that time. The weather appears to be playing ball, we are all relatively well fed, the Lamas are happy, so it is time to get back up the mountain.
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| | 17/05/07 | Chung Ta Yak
| Sing Me A Song!
I have been staying with my family next to the Caudwell Xtreme Everest team in Everest Base Camp for over 7 weeks now. Since their arrival, I have heard them singing a lot.
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| | 17/05/07 | Michael Brown
| Up we go!
It has been great to get comments on the blogs. Thank you Gary, Doerte, Heather, Chloe, Jason, Kelsey, Lori and a bunch of other friends and family.
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| | 13/05/07 | John Caudwell
| John Caudwell's Blog
After a couple of days’ rest, Diamox, Ventolin, Zopiclone and any other tablet that anyone thought would help, I was about 80 per cent better. Oh! And of course, a few prescription whiskies…
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| | 12/05/07 | Patrick Doyle
| Roping High!
Last time I wrote, I mentioned that the Caudwell Xtreme Everest climbers were all moving down the mountain for a bit of R&R before the final push on the mountain.
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| | 10/05/07 | Namche Laboratory
| 100th Trekker Tested
The Smith Medical Laboratory warmly welcomed the 100th complete set of subject tests from Christopher Price and this was celebrated in the legendary Club Namché with the usual Mythen flare.
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| | 09/05/07 | Gwen Morgan
| Filming and ice climbing lessons
Well, life in the little international village of EBC is ticking along nicely. Trek F was delayed in flying into Lukla at the beginning of their trip, which meant that we had 3 consecutive days off last week.
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| | 08/05/07 | Callan Stroud
| Snacks!
So today the first half of our snacks arrived, and is being inventoried at this moment by our dedicated snack evaluation team.
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| | 03/05/07 | John Caudwell
| Glaciers!
Yesterday we left Pheriche (4,250m / 13,944ft) for Lobuje at 4,940m / 16,207ft, a total climb of about 2,300ft.
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| | 03/05/07 | Nigel Hart
| Small world!
Even up here in the shadow of the world’s tallest mountain, the world can be a small place!....let me explain.
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| | 03/05/07 | Roger Mcmorrow
| It's War!
Overnight heavy snowfall led to immediate conflict between the good guys (that’s us) and the Evil Sherpa empire located on the hill in the kitchen tent just above our mess tent.
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| | 02/05/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Logistics team blog
I turned in at about 10:00pm, clear skies overhead and almost a full moon. It was a wonderful night, but did make a complete mockery of the weather forecast that we had received.
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| | 01/05/07 | Summit Team
| Happy May Day!
Happy May 1st Holiday all! We are back! Not quite how we were planning the next few days, but we are back in base camp for a bit of R&R.
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| 01/05/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Logistics team blog
With a day off I had yet another lie in, wallowing in my sleeping bag. As soon as the sun hits the tent, the temperature inside goes from a mind numbing minus 10 degrees to a sweltering plus 30 degrees!
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| | 30/04/07 | Michael Brown
| Storms on Everest
Last week we made a choice to delay our night in camp one based on a weather report. The storm never came, just the usual afternoon snow squalls that didn't amount to much.
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| | 30/04/07 | John Caudwell
| No frills Pheriche
I gave up trying to sleep without help. A 175mg tablet of Zopiclone gave me the first proper night's sleep in the last eight days. Saturday was an acclimatisation day in the "no-frills Pheriche".
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| | 29/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Nail file?
Trek E are continuing to test well. It has been sunnier this morning, which has been a relief to them.
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| 28/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Logistics team blog
It was incredibly windy last night. I woke on several occasions due to the noise of the prayer flags that were flapping in the wind above my tent.
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| | 27/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Thank Crunchie it is Friday
Today is Friday. Trek D arrived safe and sound, except for Geoff Hall, who is safe further down the trail. They completed their testing, and left very early this morning for Kala Patar and then Dingboche.
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| | 27/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| The Sherpas on Everest
Avalanches kill more Himalayan climbers than any other hazard. The places where avalanches have been are sometimes marked by huge ice boulders making the debris flow.
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| 27/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Logistics team blog
It was a glorious morning and for the first time in a long while the clouds didn’t appear at their usual time of midday. In fact it was so warm that the two Marks were sunbathing on a large rock next to their tent.
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| | 26/04/07 | John Caudwell
| Ceroc and a few tinnies!
Yet another night of apnoea – sleeplessness as a result of altitude. Perhaps I should have followed doctor’s orders after all and downed my bottle of penicillin-facaded Scotch whisky.
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| | 26/04/07 | Pheriche Laboratory
| No Frills Pheriche Blog
The No Frills team has been renamed by a member of Trek E as “socially relaxed but clinically sound”. We thought this could be our new motto to print on some t-shirts!!
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| | 25/04/07 | John Caudwell
| At Namche Bazaar
Finally we left Kathmandu for Lukla (2,840m / 9,317 ft) on April 22 to experience probably the best 40 minute flight of anybody’s life.
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| 24/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Logistics team blog
Mark Wilson asked me if I would like to walk to Gorak Shep and then climb Kala Patar with him and Mark Edsell. In principle, the idea sounded nice, but I really didn’t want to get up at 5:00am again.
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| | 23/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Clean!
It is Monday, and each Monday is partly a day off for us, so I have done some washing and had a shower! Hurrah! Trek C left this morning for Dingboche, and we expect Trek D tomorrow.
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| | 22/04/07 | John Caudwell
| Crampon Fun
Simon Lowe, the MD of Jagged Globe, kindly went into town and found me the same cutting edge crampons only many sizes bigger to fit my large Sportiva Spantik boots.
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| | 21/04/07 | Chris Imray
| The Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1.
We are now just over a month into the Caudwell Xtreme Everest Expedition, and contrary to my darling wife’s recent suggestion, I have not been sunning myself in the Carribean, drinking pina colada as the sun sets over an azure blue sea.
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| | 21/04/07 | Nigel Hart
| Ice-fall finally demystified
Yesterday we retuned from an overnight stay at camp 1 having made the journey up and back through the legendary ice-fall. We set out early to avoid much of the sun however the journey turned out to be nonetheless very warm.
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| | 21/04/07 | Summit Team
| First Hurdle
So the first hurdle and psychological block has been dispelled. Yesterday we retreated from camp 1 (at about 6100m) after having negotiated the fearsome Khumbu icefall.
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| | 20/04/07 | John Caudwell
| John Caudwell's blog
I’ve just come out of the London Clinic lab at The Summit Hotel in Kathmandu, where I’ve had the first of a series of in-depth medical tests.
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| | 19/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| BBC News reports
Friday is going to be busy day for Mike Grocott, our expedition leader. Radio Five Live and Breakfast TV news want live interviews, and then he may be appearing live on BBC News 24 and BBC radio as well.
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| | 16/04/07 | Pheriche Laboratory
| Pheriche - Inaugural entry
Our lab is the no frills experience. We consist of Jim, our lab manager originally from North Carolina USA, currently trying to become English and two doctors from New Zealander, Paul and Amber.
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| | 16/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Radio Traffic
It is Monday, April 16th, and Trek A has left Everest Base Camp fro Dingboche, having completed almost all of their testing.
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| | 16/04/07 | Summit Team
| Huffing and Puffing
Hey…what’s the story? In the last blog I asked for some sun for the climbing team, and what have you sent us? Snow! I just don’t know?
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| 12/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Hard Work?
Well, it is Thursday, and it has been very busy since I last Blogged. On Monday we had a Puja ceremony. Everyone in the group who had attended a Puja before said that they had never attended a Puja like it.
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| 12/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Windy
The wind blew hard last night and I was worried that the DRASH shelters might take a hammering, particularly the large 6S model that sits high on a rocky outcrop.
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| | 12/04/07 | Michael Brown
| The Ice Fall
With the Puja blessing taken care of we now have permission from the gods to venture onto the mountain. I decided to go have a scout and test a few of our camera and radio systems yesterday morning.
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| 11/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Early starts
It was my turn to get up early and start the generators. Why the scientists want to be up and about at 6:00am is anyone’s guess.
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| | 10/04/07 | Kathmandu Lab Staff
| Namaste from the Caudwell Corner
We have had an extremely busy week in Kathmandu with lots of comings and goings – we now have the pleasure of Merrilyn & Polly’s (soon to be a Dr) company and shed a tear for the departure of Jo Simpson & David Coates.
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| 10/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Party
Mike announced during the Puja that all research testing was off for the day. With much applause we continued to party for a whole 4 hours.
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| 09/04/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Chocolate
“Mac Sir, do you have any chocolate that we can offer during the Puja tomorrow”, asked Pasang, younger brother of Pema, our Sirdar.
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| | 08/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Thank goodness for logistics
I am sitting in my office, listening to Miles Davies. You may think that I have miraculously transferred back to Archway, but in fact this is courtesy of the fantastic Logistics team that we have here.
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| | 07/04/07 | Chung Ta Yak
| Namaste
Namaste, dear children. I have just got what you will probably call tea. For me that means melted glacier and snow water, and a basket full of hay.
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| | 06/04/07 | EBC Lab
| Happy Easter
After 2 weeks of testing and trekking in Nepal, the Caudwell Xtreme Team arrived at Everest Base Camp (EBC).
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| | 06/04/07 | Summit Team
| The Khumbu Icefall
Today I stood facing the Khumbu Icefall after camping at its base for the first time and after having read about and envisioned it for many years, it is a daunting piece of ice. So the die is finally cast!
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| | 04/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Divine scenery!
Today was divine. The weather was perfect, and Chris Imray and I ambled up from Pheriche to Lobuje. At one point along the route, we reached an elevation of 4425m, exactly half the height of Everest.
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| | 01/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| On the trail again
It is Saturday 31st March, and the core team have reached the White Yak in Pheriche. The trek from Deboche was quite sedate, and there was lots of opportunity to stop at tea houses along the way, and drink lemon tea.
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| | 29/03/07 | Kathmandu Lab Staff
| Visitors Galore!
The Kathmandu team would like to welcome Jo Simpson to their laboratory and congratulate her on her recent achievement of becoming a Member of the Royal College of Physicians.
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| | 27/03/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Mac's Namche fun!
arrived with the Logisitics team in Namche, via Sangboche, by helicopter, accompanied by some of the Namche equipement. Sonam, the Lodge manager, greeted us at the door and showed us the facilities.
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| | 26/03/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Starting out on the trail
It is a week since we arrived in Nepal, and this is the first moment I have had to write a blog. I am sitting in the Sherwi Khangba Lodge in Namche Bazaar. where we will be starting testing the Xtreme Team tomorrow.
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| | 26/03/07 | Summit Team
| Flying to Lukla
The end of week one has arrived and the whole team are collected in the domestic airport awaiting our flight to the heart of the Khumbu region. Outside is a small rickety twin engine plane and personally, as a poor flyer, the very thought terrifies me.
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| | 23/03/07 | Kathmandu Lab Staff
| Inaugural entry of Kathmandu Lab blog
Four members of Team Kathmandu arrived safely at The Summit Hotel on Sunday 18th to a traditional Hindu welcoming ceremony. As the brass band played the team were elaborately decorated with brightly coloured garlands.
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| | 22/03/07 | Mac Mackenney
| A Helicopter Ride to Remember
Parked on the ‘hard standing’ at the edge of the Kathmandu runway sat an ageing lump of rotor blades and fuselage. Neither Rhys, nor Lee had flown in a helicopter before.
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| | 20/03/07 | Chung Ta Yak
| My Name is Chung Ta Yak
Namaste! Mero naam Chung Ta Yak ho. (Hello! My name is Little Yak.) I cannot wait to see the Caudwell Xtreme Everest team arrive in Namche Bazaar.
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| 10/03/07 | Kay Mitchell
| French Manicure
Seven days to go and I am feeling in the need of doing something girly before three and a half months of fleeces and thermals.
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| | 09/03/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Powering the Science!
The different teams from Caudwell Xtreme Everest will all travel up the mountain separately and for this they will need their own power supply.
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| | 08/03/07 | Mac Mackenney
| Equipment Shenanigans
The equipment is still on its way to Kathmandu. With such a large consignment of freight, it will take several aircraft loads before it all finally arrives here in Nepal.
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| | 01/01/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Happy New Year
I cannot believe it is 2007. When I first got involved in this project at the beginning of 2004, 2007 seemed such a long way away!
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| | 04/12/06 | Kay Mitchell
| A gentle nudge?
And I thought it was only my sister that read the blog! Now I have had a gentle nudge from another trekker reminding me that I have not contributed to the blog for a while.
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| | 27/11/06 | Kay Mitchell
| Writer's blog!
I have been suffering from writer's block. I gather from the web that this is a common phenomenon with people who write blogs.
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| 15/11/06 | Kay Mitchell
| Sums
I always quite liked maths at school. There was a 'right answer'. Trigonometry was good, simultaneous equations did not phase me, and those things in brackets that I cannot remember the name of.
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| 06/11/06 | Kay Mitchell
| Meltdown
I am back after 7 weeks away, and already in a panic about leaving for Everest in March of next year.
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