Monday May 22, 2006

May 20, 2006

Well it's been a very active few days here at ABC. Our sister expedition "The Peace Project," summited on the 18th but have had an almost 36 hour rescue effort for one of the members. Yesterday at 8pm with the support of 10 of our Sherpa's and at least 8 sherpas from the Peace Project, the member was carried in a litter all the way from the North Col. If it hadn't have been for the efforts of Jamie McInnes the expedition leader and two sherpas who managed to walk the member all the way from the summit for Mount Everest this member would not have survived.

Once the litter arrived at our camp, members of our trip cleaned and put the member in clean dry clothing, got him situated in his sleeping bag and got him to drink warm drinks. After a night on O2 he is hydrating eating a little and looking to head back to BC maybe tomorrow. The remaining two members of the Peace Project expedition came down from the North Co this morning under there own stream.

It has been a very difficult few days on the Mountain. There are reports of people missing, some feared dead. There has been a number of people going back to BC on Yaks because of frost bite, and HAPE.

On a brighter note the weather forecast has shown an improvement in the next few days, so we are looking towards a move up on the 22nd.

We have also had a couple more people from our group go down to BC today, so our group is now 7 members strong.

Will let you know of the date we leave for the North Col.

Anne from ABC