Sunday, April 29, 2012

Kazi Sherpa prepares to push for Camp-III on Mt Everest


GANGTOK, 26 April: Mountaineer Kazi Sherpa of Indian Himalayan Centre for Adventure and Ecotourism [IHCAE], Chemchey, is currently at the base camp of the Mount Everest after establishing Camp-2 [at 21,500 feet] for height gain and acclimatization. He returned to the base camp a few days back.
IHCAE Director, GT Bhutia got in touch with Mr Sherpa this morning. Mr Bhutia informed that Mr Sherpa is currently at the base camp with his team members and added that the routes to camp 1 and camp 2 have been opened by Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee.
He informed that a meeting was held between all team members and Sherpa at the base camp on Wednesday. There are a total of 41 climbing teams with 329 climbing members this time. Mr Bhutia informed that in the meeting it was decided that now high altitude porters will open the route to camp-3, camp 4 [Summit Camp] and for the summit. He informed that now the climbers are likely to make their way towards camp-3 on 28 April, from where the climbers would again come back to the base camp.
Mr Sherpa is representing Sikkim as a member of the Mount Everest Expedition 2012 from South Col, Nepal and has been sponsored by the State Government of Sikkim. The expedition is scheduled to launch later this month and expected to summit Mount Everest by May-end. He was flagged off by the Chief Minister Pawan Chamling from here on 27 March.

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