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| Update Three: K2 2004 – Everest: K2 2004 Expedition - one day in Kathmandu
The first day in Kathmandu starts with a big sigh of relief for everybody. After the check carried out by Tarcisio Belḷ of the luggage and material which will be landshipped to Everest Tibetan basecamp. The first day in Kathmandu
starts with a big sigh of relief for everybody. After the check carried out
by Tarcisio Belḷ of the luggage and material which will be landshipped to
Everest Tibetan basecamp. While waiting for Lhasa flight, mountaineers can
enjoy one day sightseeing and shopping under the vigil eyes of the Buddha di
Bodnath. Update 4: Tibetan well-wishing salute to K2 2004 protagonists The flight Kathmandu-Lhasa is one among the most spectacular in the world. In a short time, less than one hour flight, the airplane crosses the Himalayan chain, the airplane skimming four majestic peaks. The flight Kathmandu-Lhasa is one among the most spectacular in the world. In a short time, less than one hour flight, the airplane crosses the Himalayan chain, the airplane skimming four majestic peaks. From the aircraft windows K2-2004 mountaineers have thus met Mount Everest for the first time, a dark pyramid in the midst of all other lower snowy peaks. With their arrival in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, 3600m asl, the expedition can be considered begun. Once completed all exhausting Chinese customs operations mountaineers and researchers traveled for two hours along the Yarlung river, Lhasa's river, to reach the town.
We stopped for a while in front of the great Buddha painted on a overhanging rock, a second time in front of the Potala, the huge Dalai Lama residence for a souvenir picture. A monumental avenue more than 5 km long, lined with barracks, hotels and industrial parks, clearly announces to us the transformation that the once Himalayan Shangri La has undergone. After 45 years from the beginning of the Chinese invasion the town has drastically changed. What remains intact is the warmth of Tibetan people. At the arrival of the mountaineers Tibetan Mountain Association colleagues have welcome them offering traditional well wishing silk scarves and with an amusing show improvise by actors dressed up as aks". 4/12/2004: Easter in Lhasa It is very difficult to feel Easter atmosphere in Lhasa, but the Italians of "K2-2004, 50 years" Project could not help celebrating adequately. It is very difficult to feel Easter atmosphere in Lhasa, but the Italians of "K2-2004, 50 years" Project could not help celebrating adequately . They did it in a Tibetan restaurant eating the traditional Italian Easter sweet, the Colomba with a few bottles of wine. The two-days stay in the capital was also useful for mountaineers to acclimatize to high altitude. The town is located at 3600 m asl and it is not surprising that in all the best hotels special oxygen bottles for foreigners are available. After the visits to the Potala, Dalai Lama's residence, to Jokhang Sanctuary, Tibetan spiritual heart, around which crowds of pilgrims utter buddhist mantras, Monastery of Sera the expedition is now ready to start the 600 km route which separates them from Everest base camp The arrival is foreseen for april 16 which is two days after the arrival of the materials landshipped from Kathmandu through the Njalam and Zangmu Pass. The last evening in Lhasa, mountaineers have been gathered in front of expedition leader Soro Dorotei, for a first logistical plan of the ascent. Four Tibetans of the Tibetan Mountain Association also joined the team. Among them there is also a woman, the nice La Ki, who already climbed Cho Oyu and the Shisha Pangma. 4/14: In Gyantse towards Everest Base Camp
We reached the first of four stops towards Everest Base camp. It was particularly demanding: 11 hours of exhausting dirt road, and a pass to cross at 5000 m., to go through the 250 km distance between Lhasa and Gyantse, at 3800 m asl
We reached the first of four stops towards Everest Base camp. It was particularly demanding: 11 hours of exhausting dirt road, and a pass to cross at 5000 m., to go through the 250 km distance between Lhasa and Gyantse, at 3800 m asl.
The group of mountaineers and researchers
should arrive at 5000 m. at the Rongbuk Basecamp on 16
April, one day after the arrival in Nepal of the
materials which were land shipped through the Zhangmu
passage and which have left today from Kathmandu. The
team has profited of the two days stop in Lhasa to start
with the necessary acclimatisation at the right
altitude.
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