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[marksmini]

ive always wanted to be apart of everest just once in my life. im not a dreamer and could maybe see myself doing something like this in years to follow.




does anyone else know much about working at a base camp or even camp one? ie thing you could do to help out or any websites for getting out there? i reckon i could climb to the camp one which is about 6,000m but couldnt make base advance base camp or camp 2,3 or 4 (death zone) are way too high for me lol. my small but growing fast beer/food belly would be my first problem

Mount Kilimanjaro is another one of many i would love to afford to climb too

[marksmini]

God bless the two climbers who died yestoday (tuesday29th) on Ben Nevis due to an avalanche which ive just seen on the news tonight.

im looking at going climbing on Kinder Scout in the Peak District this saturday, hope theres not too much snow. can get bad up that way if anyone knows it?

[mininuts]

im looking at going climbing on Kinder Scout in the Peak District this saturday, hope theres not too much snow. can get bad up that way if anyone knows it?

I'll give you a wave when you get to the Downfall, I can see Kinder from me upstairs window

We had a lot of snow today especially on the hills but, it seems to be thawing slowly at the mo'. It's not given any more over the weekend so you should be fine.

Are you ice climbing on the Downfall? Used to go up and watch peeps climing the frozen waterfall

Paul.

[Bungle]

your to over the hill for this Mark

[marksmini]

over the hills lmao.

Mininuts, would love to go ice climbing but dont think im there just yet lol, do you by any chance have a MK 1 on your drive/garden? orginal condition looking old? just down from a main car park? on the left hand side of the road heading towards kinder?
If so i spotted that last time i was up that way on Kinder

[Ethel]

I think it would be nigh on impossible to land a paid trip to Everest, unless you have specialised skills, such as medicine. Apart from anything else the local labour is just too cheap. Plenty of people do trek in the area and the infrastructure is good enough to do it off your own bat, trekking from tea house to tea house.



I've got friends who've done Killi, I could ask them for some info if you like?

Sad about the guys on the Ben. It wasn't a good day to be in the gullies, but we don't know the details and they may have just been unlucky enough to be crossing under one when it let go.


So who else wears crampons? - I said crampons

[mininuts]

Mininuts, would love to go ice climbing but dont think im there just yet lol, do you by any chance have a MK 1 on your drive/garden? orginal condition looking old? just down from a main car park? on the left hand side of the road heading towards kinder?
If so i spotted that last time i was up that way on Kinder

No mate, if only. If it's the one I'm thinking of, (clipper blue?), then it's my old maths teachers Morris.

Been snowing again today. Not so much settled lower down but the hills look freshly white again.

Paul.

Edited by mininuts, 01 January 2010 - 07:23 PM.