http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com Everest summit achieved May 23, 2010--- Thanks to all who supported! Tue, 29 Jun 2010 07:13:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have finally returned home after 2 1/2 months of trekking and climbing in Nepal and Tibet. The result was excellent--- the team and I summitted Everest on May 23rd at 3:30 AM Nepali time. The fundraising has gone well, but still we are short of our target. I wanted to ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/everest-for-clean-water/ Dear friends, I have just arrived in Base Camp, having summited Everest North Side safely on the 23rd at 5:30 a.m. I am currently suffering an eye infection from the cold, and really cannot see anything, so please forgive the short post. I promise to send the summit photo of my ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/post-summit-email-written-before-the-blog/ It seemed too quick. We were at the exit cracks before 8:00 Chinese time, and within 15 minutes we had reached the first tents of the high camp. I was elated but exhausted. I grabbed the radio and said, “North Col, North Col, Alex this is Dickey, over.” After a few ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/the-day-of-days-part-iii/ Noel had a good laugh when we got to the top of the 2nd step and I was smiling inside as I knew that we had less than three hours to the top. As the team gathered again above the step, Nima helped me with my headlamp. My last set ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/the-day-of-days-part-ii/ This is the recount of the summit day. I apologize as there are descriptions of corpses and some foul language here. I hope that you will understand that it is my intention to recount what was going through my mind at the time, and in no way whatsoever do I ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/the-day-of-days-part-i/ This is the penultimate blog. I hope you enjoy it. As well I would like to announce that we have 50 Wilde on Everest t shiirts left, a few summit stones and the auction of 2 signed oxygen bottles (the entire team signed them). I hope you will visit Global ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/the-beginning-of-the-summit-push/ Part of every Everest expedition involves waiting. 60+ days of expedition usually yields 20 days of movement on the mountain. Partly because of weather, partly because of needed rest at altitude and partly because of hangovers, people stay where they are on the mountain for a day or two. The acclimatization ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/the-waiting-game/ Dear All, Its been a rough week on Everest for us. We completed our acclimatisation but it was cut short thanks to the first wave of the monsoon. The snowfall at 7000 meters was over 30 CM and it continued to dump as we made our way back to ABC. We ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/06/end-of-the-acclimatisation/     As they toiled up the final snowfield to the summit, Mallory was afraid of an anticlimax, but then he was suffused with an uplifting awareness that even this most arduous stretch was part of the whole experience. ‘The dream stretched to the very end.’ Once again Mallory had invoked the ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/04/fear-and-dreams/ Dear friends, The team arrived yesterday at Everest Base Camp (5200 meters). All of us were dizzy from the gain of over 1000 meters from Shegar. However, we were welcomed with a great lunch, and then got busy finding our gear and unpacking for the move up to ABC in a ... http://www.jamesdewittwilde.com/2010/04/what-is-base-camp-like/