Agreement about Everest

The recent news coming from Nepal is all looking good, the government is now issuing permits and we are good to go. The conditions that have been agreed to are that everyone can climb to Camp 3 at any time up till May 10. After May 10 we can go above Camp 3. Also, before May 10 we will not be able to sleep above Camp 2. These conditions should not present any real problem for us.

One other condition (that will not affect our ability to climb) is that the government is restricting all forms of outside communication (satellite phone call's, pda update's, computer update's, etc) up until May 10th, except for emergency purposes. This means that most likely we will not be able update any websites or phone out with any information. Having said this, everyone will know that we are below Camp 2, because we won't be able to climb on the upper mountain during that period anyway! So, the loss of update ability is not that big, and certainly won't impact on the climb.

Our team is all set to meet in Kathmandu on March 25th! This will most likely be the last post until then as we are all in transit.

Thanks for reading and keep checking back for more updates after March 25th.

Brian Jones