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| Mountaineering News |
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| A beutiful valley in the Himilayas Nepal |
| This section of the web site is a location where club members can get informaed on all the elite mountaineerers and their expeditions. |
| - Ed Viesturs and long time climbing partner Veikka are attempting to climb Shishapangma and Nanga Parbat and his quest to complete all 14 8000ers. He has now established base camp and advanced base camp and is doing very well. If Ed completes these two mountains this season he will have to climb Broad Peak and Annapurna to complete his quest. |
| -Gary Guller will be attempting to clim Mount Everst this season. The amazing thing about Gar is that he lost his arms in a climbing accident. His team includes some top mountaineers today including Mike Trueman who was on Everest in 19996, Tunk Findik and Stephen Nelson. Gary hopes to raise awarness of spinal cord injuries if he sucedes. He is currently at base camp acclimatizing. |
| Babu Chiri Sherpa will be back on Everest in the 2001 season. He will attemp to summit twice in one year bringing his total number of sucessful summits to 12 the most ever. He has already set the speed record for fastest climb with 16 hours and 56 mins. He also has spent a night perched atop the world, he stayed there in a special tent for 21hours. He is considered one of the best Everest climbers ever. |
| Sir Edmund Hillary the legendary New Zealland native who was the first person to summit the highest peak on earth along with Tenzing Norgay has been hospitalized! It is sad that he has come down with altitude sickness while hiking in the Himilayas. He is 81 years old. |
| MORE TO COME SOON!! |
| The 5th anniversary of the 1996 Everest disaster is coming soon on May 10th. Since then many of the worlds best Climbers and Mountaineerers have died. The LWC would like to remember these great athletes and also remind our members that this is a very dangerous sport! 1996: -Rob Hall-New Zealand -Scott Fisher- USA 1997: -Mal Duff- Scotland -Anatoli Boukreev- Russia 1998: -Alex Lowe- USA |
| On a lighter note we will also like to celebrate some of the wrlds greatest Climbers ALIVE today: Conrad Anker-USA Pete Athans- USA Guy Cotter-New Zealand Todd Burleson-USA Ed Veisturs-USA David Breashears-USA Greg Child-Australia Jared Odgen-USA |
| Ed Viesturs and partner Viekka Gufstasson have succesfully climbed to the true summit of Shishapangmaa week ago.( He climbed to the wrong summi 3m away from the true summit last year). He has now completed 12 of the 14 8000ers all without suplemental oxygen and if he completes Nenga Parbat and Annapurna he will be the first American to follw in the footsteps of Reinhold Messner. |
| Babu Chiri Sherpa, the man who completed Everest in 16hrs and 56mins, the man who spent 21hrs at the summit died. He was taking pictures of camp two when he wandered to far and fell into a covered crevass. He is survived by a wife and 6 daughters. |
| There has been terrible waether this year on the worlds tallest mountain. Many teams have packed up and left, many are pinned at high camps with nowhere to go and others are sticking around. On May 19th 2001 10:00 A group of four Sherpas and two Americans reached the summit in realitively good weather. This means many teams will be attempting within the next few days because the first team has brken all the trail from C4 to the summit and fixed ropes. |