Everest 2007 Cybercast: April 18 - BC
April 18th, 2007 by 
Firat
From a series of dispatches from the Alpine Ascents 2007 Everest Expedition team.
Namaste from Everest BC. It’s the night before we head up for our first acclimitization trip. There’s a bit of snow falling and everyone is heading off to bed. The past couple of days we’ve been playing in the ice pinnacles getting our gear dialled and our skills sharpened.
Yesterday a couple of us headed up to the top of the icefall to check out the route and see how the icefall is faring so far. It is a bit more broken up this season than in the past few making a bit more ciruitous route. The rest of the team headed up the icefall a couple of hundred feet to the second ladder.
The team is psyched about the chance to get up higher tomorrow. We’ll spend 2 nights at CI and 2 nights at CII if things go as planned. We are all looking forward to seeing how the Sherpa have done setting up our camps. But most importantly everyone is excited to see the Western Cwm and the first views of the SW face of Everest as well as Lhotse and Nuptse.
We’ll be in touch from the Western Cwm!
All the best,
Dave
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