Everest 2012: Climbing and alcohol

June 6, 2012 Trip reports 7 summits club, 8000m peaks, acclimatisation, alan arnette, altitude junkies, chongba sherpa, everest, everest base camp, grant rawlinson, himex, ian cartwright, manaslu, margaret watroba, mark dickson, nyalam, phil crampton, sherpas, summit day, tibet, weather forecasts, west coast weather 5 Comments

Everest 2012: Climbing and alcohol

The story of the 2012 Altitude Junkies expedition to climb Everest by the North Ridge Sometimes you get lucky in life, and everything just seems to fall into place like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle. These times are rare and

Nyalam and Tingri

April 16, 2012 Expedition dispatches acclimatisation, cho oyu, everest, friendship highway, george mallory, grant rawlinson, ian cartwright, lhasa, mark dickson, nyalam, phil crampton, shegar, shigatse, shishapangma, tibet, tingri 2 Comments

Nyalam and Tingri

There are two routes to the north side of Everest from Kathmandu. The more interesting one, and the one I took on my two previous visits to Tibet when I climbed to the North Col of Everest and made an