White Limbo: The First Australian Climb of Mt. Everest |
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Page 113
... yaks herded by another three Tibetans walked over the low piles of ancient moraine to the small meadow which was our camp . That night we organised supplies into suitably sized loads for the fifteen yaks we chose to hire , though in the ...
... yaks herded by another three Tibetans walked over the low piles of ancient moraine to the small meadow which was our camp . That night we organised supplies into suitably sized loads for the fifteen yaks we chose to hire , though in the ...
Page 118
... yaks and yak drivers . But there was food and equipment to be packed into loads and we knew we would be back up within a day or two . Making up the loads was a routine process . Everything had to be carried up to Advance Base eventually ...
... yaks and yak drivers . But there was food and equipment to be packed into loads and we knew we would be back up within a day or two . Making up the loads was a routine process . Everything had to be carried up to Advance Base eventually ...
Page 119
... yaks and yak - men for the last two ferries of equipment . The sun hit the tents shortly after ten o'clock in the morning , a misleading figure since all clocks in China were set to Beijing time thousands of kilometres to the east ...
... yaks and yak - men for the last two ferries of equipment . The sun hit the tents shortly after ten o'clock in the morning , a misleading figure since all clocks in China were set to Beijing time thousands of kilometres to the east ...
Common terms and phrases
abseiled Advance Base Camp Ama Dablam anchor Andy Henderson Andy's Annapurna II Anyemaqen arrived ascent attempt Australia avalanche bad weather Beijing bergschrund boots camera Changtse China Chinese Cho Oyu cliff climb Everest climbers clouds cold Colin Couloir crampons crevasse Dablam danger descend equipment exhausted expedition felt film crew fixed rope gear Geof Bartram Greg and Andy Greg's gully high altitude Himalayan Howard huge hundred metres ice-axe Jim Duff Khumbutse kilometres lack of oxygen ledge Lhasa loads looked Macartney-Snape mess tent Mike mind monsoon morning moun mountain Mt Everest Narayan and Tenzing needed Nepal night North Face Nuptse organised pack peak problem Pumori Qomolangma radio river rock rockclimbing Rongbuk Glacier route seemed skis sleeping bags snow cave spent steep stoves thousand metres Tibet Tibetan Tim Macartney-Snape took valley wait walked walls West Ridge White Limbo wind worry Xigatse yaks Zealand