Shawn is on his way to Base camp in 3 days!

Shawn is at Base Camp at 15000 feet right now, spending three nights at BC (acclimatization hiking each day) before moving up to IC (Interim Camp) on the 31st and to Advanced Base Camp at over 18000 feet on September 1st.

Shawn is at Base Camp and will start his climb!

Shawn is in Tibet!!

From the IMG Blog: "Cho Oyu team members..., and a couple sherpas who are staying back with them, will do further acclimatization hiking tomorrow up the nearby ridges that overlook Nyalam. The plan for the team will be to go on to Tingri the following day. Because Tibet is so high, we want to make sure everyone is well acclimatized before going to the Base Camps."

Shawn called me from Tibet, he is doing fine w/ the acclimatization!

Shawn in Nepal!!

Departure for Cho Oyu

All packed and ready. Seems like I must have inventoried over 150 items numerous times over.
With equipment set, feeling good, in shape, it's time to leave.
Tomorrow I take the long journey to Nepal. First time there so quite excited about that.







Leaving those at home is tough. I have now such a great supporting group of people in my life. From my wife, friends, co-workers, and bosses I really appreciate them all.

the next 40 days present numerous challenges, but as always they will be tackled one day at a time. Right now the first step is to arrive in Kathmandu.

I hope the communications methods setup for the trip work. If so I should be able to contact Milu periodically to update this blog. Additionally the Spot GPS tracking on the right of this page should work to display the last 7 days of tracking data and a couple custom messages

International Mountain Guides (IMG) will also be blogging periodically on their site. Can be found:
http://www.mountainguides.com/wordpress/

sP