Summit Day - 8848m

This is an account of Summit Day, a day that I will remember for the rest of my life.

North Col - 7800m

Email update to Dave Pritt, Adventure Peaks, http://www.adventurepeaks.com/

ABC - Heading up the North Col

Email update to Dave Pritt at Adventure Peaks, http://www.adventurepeaks.com/

ABC - Cyclone Laila

Our Summit Day has now been bumped forward a day to avoid Cyclone Laila which has reared her ugly head in the Bay of Bengal. This makes our new Summit Day the early morning of Sunday, May 23rd. There have been some rumours about Laila in the weather forecasts of the past few days but todays report was a bit too clear to ignore... I’ve included some relevant sections in the end section of this entry. Combined with the wind tearing away at my tent, the gargantuan of spin-drift blowing off of Everests' summit, and the unexpected layer of snow that fell again last night, the report makes for some nail-biting reading..