I’ve been looking for a ‘big’ trip to go on for a few years now. Lately it’s been more and more difficult to find friends able to go on extended excursions and when Tim Mosedale said he was looking to organise an expedition to the south side of Everest, I was very keen. I did however realise that it would need a long spell away from work, would cost a lot of money and would potentially upset my parents. With time and effort, I managed to resolve the first two obstacles but dealing with the third is still ongoing.
Getting to the top and back down safely is the objective but there are many more obstacles to overcome in order to do that and a lot of luck required too, particularly with regards to the weather. People have been to try to Climb Everest year after year, before conditions permitted them to try for the summit. Just getting high on the mountain to visit some of the places I’ve read about over the years will be a fantastic opportunity with getting to the top and back down safely the icing on the cake so to speak.
The outline plan is to trek for a few weeks to acclimatise as much as possible before getting to Base Camp which we hope to reach towards the end of April. We’ll then have time acclimatising on Everest before hopefully being in a position to make a summit attempt in the second half of May, weather and jet stream permitting.
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